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… best buddy, Adolf Timm, after finishing our carpentry apprenticeships. We left Kiel by train to Bremerhaven Camp Lesum before boarding the Anna Salèn enroute to Canada. On July 23, 1951 we left Bremerhaven and ventured on a journey of excitement and …
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… what was happening was very unclear, I was only 8. All I knew, I was coming to Canada and My father had told me he had a teddy Bear for me …
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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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… History, and I completed an experiential education placement with the Canadian Museum of Immigration in 2022. The placement was with CMI’s … process, with examples from the codes for work and reflections, as a way to learn about and interpret the experiences of immigrants in Sault … as essential parts of their lives and, in some cases, the reason why they moved to the Sault. The nine codes used to analyze and …
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… Francis about art-making, finding solutions and what it means to be welcomed by Mi’kmaq. Virick Francis, photo by Isabel Francis Photo. When … till I was like 17, 18, living in Maine. There was really limited income, living in Maine. All you had was either work for farmers or … culture? Back far as I remember, on reserves or in nearby Mi’kmaw communities, there were more people making baskets as a source of …
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… Francis about art-making, finding solutions and what it means to be welcomed by Mi’kmaq. Virick Francis, photo by Isabel Francis Photo. When … till I was like 17, 18, living in Maine. There was really limited income, living in Maine. All you had was either work for farmers or … culture? Back far as I remember, on reserves or in nearby Mi’kmaw communities, there were more people making baskets as a source of …
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… for the other islands, and no joy for this one? Well, Lawlor’s has a complex history. It was the quarantine facility for Halifax in the … of much historical work, including an energetic restoration and commemoration project by Parks Canada . I can’t propose a single answer … in the case of Lawlor’s: Dr. Ian Cameron, a medical doctor and an accomplished historical researcher, has done a great deal of work on the …
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… locked in the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21… it was a way to honour the immigrant stories in my own family.” —Frances … Pier 21 as one of its beneficiaries. The historian in me saw it as a way to further the Museum’s work. More importantly, it was a way to honour the immigrant stories in my own family. — Contributed by …
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… September 23, 1951 - Concetta; June 12, 1954 - Michele Age on Arrival: 26 - Concetta; 23 - Michele Born in the south eastern community of … was the catalyst for life-saving changes to Ontario's labour laws. We thank our parents for their courage of love. We want to acknowledge and thank them for taking the risks they did to come to a new country, not knowing the language, not having work and …
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… of going to Canada! This dream became a reality in the summer of 1952. We left the Netherlands, Mom, Dad my brother, my sister and myself with … go up to the top bunk to get the glasses. I did so but was afraid to come back down. My crying brought a woman, and later my mother, to …