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… we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can … an abstract sharing circle i imagine myself within, among family, community, and all people here. I write it this way because i believe … landscape, how the years/generations of colonization were short by comparison. In agreement with others, i felt that all people, including …
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… we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can … an abstract sharing circle i imagine myself within, among family, community, and all people here. I write it this way because i believe … landscape, how the years/generations of colonization were short by comparison. In agreement with others, i felt that all people, including …
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… Origins of World Refugee Year In the spring of 1958, four young individuals affiliated with the Bow Group, a conservative public … for the establishment of a World Refugee Year (WRY) and called on the United Kingdom to play a leading role in promoting it to its global allies. In light of the triumph of the UN International Geophysical Year the previous year, the four …
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… of Dansville, Quebec enlisted on his birthday, September, 4, 1939, one day after Brtain declared war. He was with the Sherbrooke …
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… Teresa DiGiandomenico (Rasetta) Pier 21 Immigration Story aboard Vulcania, 1956 The adventure began on June 8, 1956 for my mother Elena … Brazil in order to work in the construction industry to make enough money so that he could bring the family to Canada to join his other … arrival. He was sponsored by his brothers Guido and Giovanni, who had come to Toronto by way of Belgium. Despite our fear of leaving our safe …
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… his wife Sheila Doreen (Bradwell) and three children: Jane (5), Anna (4) and Bob (3) took the train from Quebec City to Peterborough, …
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… foreign language in Japan and for six months, I lived in Tokyo and studied Japanese. In high school, I studied Latin, French, German and Spanish. Even though I had high marks, I … I loved learning language. I heard the language all around me and was completely involved in Japanese life, so I learned quickly to get along …
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… for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … Flora, Trinidad and Tobago. Santa Flora was a town owned by an oil company and Tony’s father worked as an x-ray technician at the oil company’s medical centre. After graduation, Tony also began working for …
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… The Janssen Family by Johanna Keyzers On February 12, 1952, Antoon Janssen, with his wife Dora and 5 children, Ricki, Josephine, Henry, … change their lives, and the lives of their children, forever. This 10 day voyage began aboard the immigration ship Zuiderkruis on which they … Antoon and Dora Janssen …
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… So I remember…we were scared…we didn’t know what was going on, that it’s going to be…more like a coup—in those days I didn’t know … traditionally supported its civilian government leaders. In addition, the election of Allende to the presidency in 1970 marked the first … ranged from assassinations, disappearances, and blacklisting to coercion, isolation, and exclusion – all aimed at ridding Chile of leftist …