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… offices. From 1945 to 1948 there was a little work in cities like Treviso and Mestre rebuilding all that had been destroyed by the bombarding … restaurant and we got our first Canadian meal: eggs, bacon, toast, jam and coffee. We were starving since when we had brought food in …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated August 21, 2020) Origins of Canada’s Refugee Determination System The origins of Canada’s refugee determination system can be traced back to 1922, when the League of Nations (a predecessor … Canada’s Refugee Determination System …
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… by Sorcha Clarke This is a guest post from Visiting Researcher Sorcha Clarke, a PhD candidate at Ulster University … workers from rural areas in search of employment. Population growth accompanied this, with London, already a city of one million in 1800, … recalled that ‘I stood up, I was impulsive and always pushing ahead,’ [26] whilst Robert Clapham and his peers, ‘when we got the chance to go …
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… wealthy American ladies, Mary Hitchcock and Edith Van Buren, who had come to Dawson City not to make their fortune, but to experience … Klondike Gold Rush. The experiences of Hitchcock and Van Buren were far from common, however they illustrate the fervor of excitement that came with the discovery of gold in the Canadian West. When news broke of gold in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia in 1858, …
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… up at Hamburg to emigrate he might find one escaped murderer, three or four wasters and ne’er-do-wells, some very poor shop-keepers, artisans … an agreement with the United Kingdom to permit the entry of over four thousand Free Polish veterans. In appraising their potential for … “must not be allowed to remain in any office for more than twenty-four hours without action being taken.” [33] In these programs of …
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… While at U.B.C., he became involved with the University student newspaper , the Ubyssey. This ultimately led to his employment with the … Oscar died on September 12th, 2012 in palliative care with his family beside him. Interests: Oscar was a long standing member of the Jane … in his life many times. In 1997 Oscar was awarded the Morden Lazarus Prize which is awarded annually by the Canadian Assoc. of labour Media …
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… region, in northeast Italy. She is the second child of four of Romolo Milanese and Anna Pasqualini. A month after Ariella was … from Nazi occupation, all Germans, and Italians there were imprisoned in Prisoner of War (POW) camps, and their possessions seized. … he wanted a picture of her so he could see what she looked like. So, Anna took her three daughters into town to take a picture to send …
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… Families 1956 We huddled each night around our radios giving us the news from Budapest. I saw five pointed stars in our town square, … old and I, who was eight at the time, were told that we were going to visit our relatives, but this couple never came with us. None of our … to plan for the future, freedom to dream. He was 34, mother was 26. We liked Neikirchen Austria a lot with its mountains and pretty …
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… the top of the clock. I should have been overwhelmed with dread at the news and perhaps taken the next train home. But this was the trip of a lifetime, my first bit of independence and the chance to study art in summer school in this huge cosmopolitan city. I … felt the British could get on without me for another three weeks, and so I stayed. What I do remember with warmth was the fact that everybody …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian … “Canada’s 50,000th DP Starts New Life in New Home,” Globe and Mail , 26 February 1949, 17. Oral History with Ausma Levalds Rowberry, … and Mail , 12 January 1954, 15. “Missing Millionth,” Globe and Mail , 26 May 1954, 6. “Missing Millionth.” Badgley, “As Long as He is an …