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… Time 0:03:29 Transcript I grew up in a small island in India called Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Our family had four girls, and we were always discouraged by close relatives and the community for only having girl children. My aunts would say, why does … said to her, I don’t want her to come back one day and say, you didn’t let me study further. After my Masters in Bombay, I moved to Canada to …
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… in Lincolnshire in preparation for D-Day. My cousin, Joan Chudley, said there were men everywhere - sleeping in barns, beside roads and so on. She said on D-Day, early in the morning, the bombers took to the air. … others. The noise was deafening. Windows shattered and houses shook. She said, if you were there, you would never forget it. When the last …
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… 1, 1948 my wife and I and our 11- mouth old daughter arrived in Quebec City, Canada. We decided to leave our homeland of the Netherlands for a … Work was hard to fine at that time but we managed to save money to pay for the trip. Immigrating was said to be a ‘live burial’ since it was thought that your family and …
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… I came to Canada in November 1961 with my mother, Maria Rosaria (Teti) Pagano and my sister, Maria Grazia Pagano. We … there was an older boy from my home town who was also on the boat. He, his mother and sisters were going to Montreal to join his father, …
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… Learning English Time 0:00:42 Transcript So then I got this job at a … into Spanish, and then write your homework that way. That’s how I learned English. I didn’t have an aide here telling me, “This is how … be approved for a green card in the United States, they applied to come to Canada as refugees. The family qualified for refugee status due …
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… Five of us, who were making the voyage, set out by foot and bicycle from Trevignano to the Signoressa train … us. We decided to stop at the local town pub to raise a glass and say a final farewell and good cheer because none of us knew when, if ever, we would see each other …
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… Time 0:03:09 Transcript Some people are born lucky but the account my fate was written with tears. I was … go to England and look for another job. He helped me in getting Indian passport and arrange funds for travel to U.K. I went to U.K and after … time I got married with an Indian girl from Kenya. She was also a teacher. After, few years we decided to immigrate to Canada. Here in …
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… We are family of four from Akureyri in Iceland. We had a beautiful little house on hill in Akureyri. I always wanted to move to a different … lost all our savings that took years to build up. But, we had our own company that we could sell and we had money to leave, lots of people … in town. We are still finding our way here but with every month that passes it gets a little better. I still get homesick and I’m not sure …
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… courageously leaving their parents and friends behind them to seek a better life for their two young daughters. With teary eyes, on … in texture and taste compared to the bread they ate in Italy. Gaetano said to his family that this is English bread and to this day the … work, Luciana started school and Pina stayed at home with Zia Erma as she was too young to attend school. In 1965, just a year after their …
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… Date of Arrival: April 5, 1929 Age on Arrival: 17 In 1929, because of her youth,and travelling alone (she was sponsored by her aunt already in Canada), she was chaperoned by …