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Francesco e Antonia Benincasa …
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Vincenzo and Calogera Catania …
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The Boudouris Family …
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Vito Geronimo …
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Hilja Sivia Simula …
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Luigi and Onoria D'Agostini …
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December 2023 to December 2025 Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers has created an artistic intervention, currently on display in the Canadian Immigration Story exhibition. “Since July 2021, I have created over 100 installations at residential school historical sites, museums, art galleries and other …
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“I don't consider myself a basket maker” An interview with artist-in-residence Virick Francis about art-making, finding solutions and what it means to be welcomed by Mi’kmaq. Virick Francis, photo by Isabel Francis Photo. When did you start weaving? In my early teens, I was making big baskets with …
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Photographs capture time. They tell fragments of stories. The Museum is full of photographs. In our permanent exhibitions, a huge floor-to-ceiling photograph from 1914 of the passengers of SS Komagata Maru looms over part of our museum- a haunting memory of faces turned away by the racist …
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We sometimes refer to this institution as a museum of stories. Stories of arrivals, of departures, of new beginnings. Among the stories are incredible, and often harrowing, accounts of escape. These are two stories of escape , from different places and time periods. They both ended with a new life …