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… had disembarked from ships in Halifax when our families immigrated to Canada, we were interested to learn more. The Tourist Information … office directed us to the Immigration Exhibition at Pier 21. Here we learned about the Pier 21 Society and their work to preserve …
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… Pier 21 Story from Guenther Weber and Family Guenther Carl Heinrich Weber and Margarethe … Office to find a job and Grete looked for a place to live. Anngret sat on top of their luggage at Union Station and was left to look after … Guenther Weber and Family …
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Difficulty of Being a TA Time 0:02:42 Transcript XY: Um. My school started in January the eighth I believe. Um, the study was okay because I think that we were only required to take, three to five courses, of the courses they were fine, not difficult, and the research I am always interested in …
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… church and I also sing there too. One time the Karen youth in Langley did a singing competition. I signed my name on a list and they pick me. On that day I … came back again. I dreamed that I went back to Thailand to help my people. In my dream I don’t want to come back in Canada because all the …
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… I was 9 years old when I emigrated to Canada in May, 1957 with my mother Antonietta … of the southern region of Calabria. I remember feeling anxious and sad to leave my friends and relatives behind, especially my maternal …
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… stories. Stories of arrivals, of departures, of new beginnings. Among the stories are incredible, and often harrowing, accounts of escape. … different places and time periods. They both ended with a new life in Canada . And although they are not part of our exhibitions, they are both featured in the Museum’s programming. Here is a little bit about each story, and how you can learn more. …
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… My father, Frank Vermeulen, worked as a veterinarian and farmer in Holland. … to try something to new, and heard that things were much better in Canada. He immigrated to Canada in March of 1927. My parents were … mother had to sell her pearl necklace to be able to purchase milk for her. We travelled by train from Winnipeg to Aberdeen Saskatchewan, …
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… I was born in Bremerhaven on January 23, 1941 to Karoline and Theo Muller, two doting parents. Everything was on fire, chaos everywhere. … in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 … you » That did it– I applied for immigration to Canada. I booked a passage on the Arcadia from Bremerhaven to Montreal. Unfortunately …
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… Time 0:02:19 Transcript The night before I left to travel the world for nine months, my oldest sister, Colleen gave me a small bundle of 36 numbered envelopes to keep me company. Inside were notes of encouragement and questions to inspire … the fare just because I was a foreigner. In some of the places I visited the simplest tasks like finding a bank or a place to use the …
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… Traditional Icelandic names tend to have meaning so my name means “ripples in a stream”. I grew up as a third generation Canadian of Icelandic … Afi Johann had built his first little house on next farm. He visited his neighbours and met their new guest. The next day, he came back and said to Thora: “You may as well come home with me.” She needed a place and he needed a wife. They were …