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… Refuge Canada Tent Welcome to the Refuge Canada Tent information page. Below are documents and resources for marketing, programming, installing and maintaining the exhibition (330 sq. ft.). Exhibition … Interpretation Guidelines and Resources for Refuge Canada Tent …
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… Time 0:01:22 Transcript: In our section Escape by Sea in Refuge Canada we have these two life jackets that were worn by children who … small life jackets is this one in particular is not a life jacket at all, it’s a toy. It’s meant for playing in a backyard swimming pool. This vinyl would not stay inflated for more than a few minutes on the open ocean yet smugglers sold this to a …
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… so I could only read about the victory when the English papers finally reached Canada. The Nova Scotia was a passenger/freight ship with about 100 passengers. On the trip I recall an evening when we had a dance which was quite exceptional because … a day or two in Newfoundland while the freight was unloaded and I recall my disgust at the dirt accumulated on the store windows along the …
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… hat and I saw his curly red hair, I know it was my Vic. We eventually settled in Peterborough, built our lovely home, had two beautiful … was to go back in time to 1941 and could make a choice, would I do it all over again? Yes, I would. My biggest enjoyment next to my family is …
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… Canada Time 0:00:51 Transcript Emily Burton (EB): So do you see yourself as an immigrant? Tom Corcoran (TC): I see myself as belonging here … an immigrant. EB: Now why do you think that is? TC: Because it was so comfortable to be here, so easy to be here, I don’t know. I certainly … try to help immigrants become part of this society and it’s a real chore: language barriers and all sorts of colour barriers, …
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… offices or do any of that sort of thing, but uh, but I was definitely involved in, there was one march we had downtown, we went from campus all the way to downtown Cincinnati, and it was quiet, nobody spoke, and … picture and I, I would have brought it but it was so faded you can barely see, there were a couple of little old ladies sitting there and …
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… white rice. She ate some and was sick again but went back and ate some more because she knew the baby need nourishment and was able to keep … down. This ship landed at Pier 21 in Halifax Jan. 17, 1949. They were all taken to a large room where they waited to be processed. It took a … with facilities to bath it was beautiful and very clean & warm. One more day on the train they arrived in Windsor Ontario and were greeted …
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… you look into it. The excitement, the joy, the pride, you can feel them in the air like electricity. Many immigrants feel like they really belong in Canada after receiving their citizenship. This specific … are precious in museums. It is in this moment that they realise that becoming a citizen is not easy. That would-be-citizens are expected to …
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… married my husband, Bill in Aug. 1943. He was in the R.A.F. and had come to Canada to serve in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. … I was able to accompany my husband when he was posted. He had become an instructor upon returning to Gt. Britain. When the war ended, … children. Our son slept in a hammock in the birth above mine. Eventually the trip was over! Upon arriving in Halifax at Pie r21 we were …
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… that he shared with his six siblings. He never mentioned his father, all I knew of his mother that she was very stern woman, a very …