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… Austrian Canadian Council Austrian Society Ottawa Here we set foot on Canadian soil and began our journey to the interior, contributing diligently to Canadia´s cultural mosaic. Wir, die hier gelandet sind, haben am kulturellen mosaic Kanada’s mitgearbeitet. In …
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… Marilyn Carr-Harris. Courtesy of Dr. Afua Cooper. Reckoning with an uncomfortable past is an important part of the job of any national … And Canada was deeply involved through our connections to the West Indies trade and our part in shipping and the British Empire.” The … means a lot,” says Conlin. “It's a great chance to talk to a bigger audience about this story.” Conlin will travel to the UN and speak at the …
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… house in the suburbs with two other families. We then we moved to the city to Little Italy. I learned the language, got a job and started to … 1958 aboard the Italian Liner Saturnia. It was a very cold and windy day in Halifax Harbour for June on the day of my arrival. After customs and paper work, I went shopping for …
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… At the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, we collect and tell the stories of immigrants who came to Canada and continue to come to Canada to make a new home for themselves. Some of these stories … Most recently, we hosted our travelling exhibit called Canada: Day 1 . This travelling exhibit explores the memories, impressions and …
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… Finding Support in the Bengali Community Time 0:02:03 Transcript I think whenever you meet your … Bangladesh. In 2003, Jebunnessa left her home to complete graduate studies in social work in Sweden. After completing her master’s degree she … to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where her husband began his doctoral studies. Currently, Jebunnessa works as an activist, singer, radio host …
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… and I sang together with brothers and nephews. In Uganda, we were competing with many musicians, and because we were not from there, and … it was all not easy. My hope was gone. I feared I was going to die, away from my family. Our music mission there wasn’t fulfilled but … of immigrants. I visited people who were left alone by their family to die at hospitals. In my career of music production, I decided to help …
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… destinations all over Canada. This picture of European immigrants welcomed into Canada stands in contrast to those who Canada excluded … These include images of ships arriving at Pier 21, images of newcomers to Canada sledding for the first time and images of ribbon … Pier 21 (DI2016.478.1) The sum of these pictures is an immensely rich, complicated and necessarily incomplete portrait of a nation. Incomplete …
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… came and in front of all the students told the Bahai’s to stop coming to school from tomorrow. At this moment I felt I lost my … So I didn’t have any choice except start to work hard to establish a comfortable life for my future in Kuwait. which I was succeed to have … which was place for most of the singers, actors, actress, artists to come & take their photos. That made a comfortable life for me & my …
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… destinations all over Canada. This picture of European immigrants welcomed into Canada stands in contrast to those who Canada excluded … These include images of ships arriving at Pier 21, images of newcomers to Canada sledding for the first time and images of ribbon … Pier 21 (DI2016.478.1) The sum of these pictures is an immensely rich, complicated and necessarily incomplete portrait of a nation. Incomplete …
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… have everything that I wanted. All I had to do was be good at my studies. But I wasn’t. And that changed everything. Because of obsessing … daddy around me. I only had instant noodles as my meals for a month. Comparing to my hometown, life here was boring. I asked myself: Why am … it’s not exactly like how I learned in China. Maybe my dream job will come from my knowledge of Japanese language and culture. Why did I come …