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  • Hiding in the Jungle - Bwe Doh Soe
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 2:41 Transcript I was very young, and I wasn’t … they were told not to cry because they were, were afraid that the soldiers would hear that, and they will, uh, capture us. And then my … again, you know. Whatever left. But most of the time, the soldier destroyed, pretty much everything. But there was something left. …
  • Who is that giant bear?
    … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … about herself in the third person: She cuddled Teddy, her constant companion and whispered in his ear, ”we are really going to sail to … continuity, in a time of change. Fenton is here to make people feel welcome. Left: Pat & Teddy Toronto, summer 1954 [DI2019.177.2]. Right: …
  • Who is that giant bear?
    … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … about herself in the third person: She cuddled Teddy, her constant companion and whispered in his ear, ”we are really going to sail to … continuity, in a time of change. Fenton is here to make people feel welcome. Left: Pat & Teddy Toronto, summer 1954 [DI2019.177.2]. Right: …
  • Yolanda Garcia
    … First Day in Canada Time 0:02:30 Transcript … the first one was—it was so … say uh. But it was remarkable because it start my life right so that day, so it was—I was—it was so special and I remember, and I remember even the days after uh—that when I was going to the school to my classes that …
  • Ferrara Family
    … I spent an interesting morning touring and researching my arrival to Canada on the ship - Vulcania. We docked in Halifax on an overcast day on December 29, 1952. This account is the story of Peppino, a … At the age of thirteen he began to work part time at a bowling alley setting pins to earn money. He enjoyed and excelled in school. …
  • Sheila Laird
    … it up the gangplank and I knew it. I don't usually cry, but I did that day. I just stood there and wept. Two soldiers came and helped me … started to inch out of the dock, the band began to play "Will Ye No Come Back Again." The streamers began to snap. I wondered if I had done …
  • Chinese Immigration Act, 1923
    … demands for more prohibitive regulations to limit Chinese immigration. Commonly referred to as the “Chinese Exclusion Act,” the legislation … did it fully satisfy nativist and racist opinions. [1] Calls for the complete cessation of Chinese immigration originated in British … to register and carry photo identification as evidence of their compliance with the regulations of the act; even Canadian born and …
  • Museum Hits the Right Note for Pier 21 Club Member
    … It may not come as a surprise for many that the head of the National Arts Centre … of music were less than ideal, it helped steer him down a path to become one of this country’s best known champion of the arts. In 1947, … that immigration has been one of the major ways in which Canada has become the kind of country it is in the early part of this century,” he …
  • Umbertinese
    … Gaetano said to his family that this is English bread and to this day the family refers to white loaf bread as English bread. After two … Zia Erma to welcome them to Canada. Onwards they went to Zia Erma’s house on Northcliffe Blvd., near Dufferin St & St. Clair Ave. The … Umbertineses had to move out to make more space for them at Zia Irma’s house. Gaetano needed to find new housing for his young family. In 1966 …
  • LAC Beverley Henry Patterson
    … of the first to open the Number 6 Operational Training Unit (RCAF) in Comox, BC in 1943. Bev was discharged on August 31, 1945. He was a … Agriculture Entomological Laboratory most of his working life. He died at age 96 on June 16, 2018 in the Camp Hill Memorial Hospital, …

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