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… unusual coughs which we realized with horror was whooping cough. This caused a tremendous flap in the district and the doctor insisted … that we should have a large quarantine label on our door warning all children to keep their distance. “I found this a little hard to … slight attack, Roger by some miracle escaped, but Martin became quite ill. The doctor ordered one of the antibiotics at $1.00 per pill. With …
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… doll here tells a story about two major groups of refugees who came to Canada. This doll is on loan from Dr. Tran-Davies, a medical doctor in … group of South-East Asian refugees who fled South-East Asia after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Over 60 thousand Cambodian, Laotian and … little 1970s doll as kind of a welcome to Canada gift. Dr. Tran-Davies has since become a very successful medical doctor with a huge family …
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… wasn’t moving and I—we had told—we were told never to open our port holes and I went over and I thought, We’ve got to be in port if we’re not … it, I was so relieved, to get safely here. And I—I’ll never forget coming into Halifax and then two soldiers came on and they took the … across Canada. Biography: Gwendoline Goodey was born in Hampshire, England in 1920 at the Bordon Military Camp where her father was posted …
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… Woolidge, England. Woolidge is located in a working section of London. Her family moved to Reigate in county Surrey when Ada was eleven years … from the church. The reception was held down the road at the church hall in Reigate with Ada's family and friends in attendance as well as …
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… perhaps errors—in constructing histories. Causal relationships can be hard to establish properly, especially when they are rooted in … an unfamiliar and complex past. In our temporary exhibition, Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes , we examined how immigrant communities created and shaped cultural landscapes in Canada. We approached identifying and exploring cultural landscapes …
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… Life in the United States Time 0:02:22 Transcript I had just graduated from university—1965. I … weeks and I got a letter from the government saying to report to Portland, Maine for your draft physical. They sort of got to give you a … used to somehow do you in too, because apparently a lot of guys would complain about back problems, you know, carrying your backpacks and all …
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… My Story by Pompilio De Francesco I was born in a little town in Italy called Guardiaregia, in Molise, in the province of Campobasso, on … and beautiful North America was. They had made some money working in Canada and the USA before they returned to Italy. In their mature age, … we stopped at beautiful Union Station. We saw Queen's Park, City Hall and the Bank of Canada Tower. We went to live in a flat on …
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… school. Gotha is a city of about 250,000 in Thuringen, near Wimar, Halle and Leipzig. There were over 2000 kids at the school and I was the … pioneer and they called me Medalah (little girl) for my bright blue eyes, long eyelashes and hair that turned blond from the sun. They put …
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… Time 0:02:58 Transcript I am a typical after 80s born Chinese boy. Because of the “one Child” policy, I was a “little emperor” in … in animation and video games, I was falling in love with Japanese language and culture. It’s just like Romeo falling in love with Juliet, … 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 …