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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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… 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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… 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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… John Prokopowich was born in Skala, Borscziw, Ukraine in 1865. He married Maria Beyko in 1893. Maria was the daughter of Nick and … Skala. John and Maria heard that Canada was accepting and promising a good future for immigrants. In 1899, John, Maria, their two children …
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… Type: Immigrant Port of Entry: Halifax, Pier 21 Date of Arrival: March 26, 1964 I arrived at pier21 on March 26 1964 and took the train to Toronto where I was met by my aunt who … during the next 10 years and joined tennis and badminton clubs. One day I was invited to go on a moonlight hike on the Bruce Trail which is …
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… Christine Schlechta was a 10-year-old German immigrant at the time of what she recalled as a magical quarantine Christmas. “It was … This meant that he had to be quarantined, and because he had become sick on board ship, the shipping company had to pay all the cost. … were well fed during our stay in Halifax, and especially on Christmas Day. For breakfast I received a bowl full of some strange stuff called …
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… Single Men and Women June 6, 1952 – Waterman I well remember the day that I disembarked from the MS Waterman in Halifax NS on June 6, 1952 and passed through the now famous Pier 21 shed. The Customs and Immigration officials processed the 900 Dutch …
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… the rock and play tricks off the rock. Then we pack up our stuff to come to Canada. I was 4 or 5 years old. The thing I love about Canada …
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… Margarita Bruehler nee Sosnowsky to Paraguay if her brother hadn’t come down with the chickenpox. Margarita’s early childhood memories are … they had had their own quota of hardship following WWII. “Paraguay, South America, eventually agreed to take them to populate the … Marine Tiger , bound for the promised land, Canada.” That was a lucky day for Rita and for Canada. Sometimes what seems like a tragic event …
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… many of the Dutch war brides explain that they saw the Canadian soldiers as their saviours, romance was inevitable. I have two Dutch war … twelve-hour days, seven days a week and frequently cared for German soldiers. Johanna Silvester was active with the Resistance in the … “Netherlands-Canada Settlement Scheme”. The experiences of Dutch newcomers ranged from being housed in a chicken coop by an abusive farmer …