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Countless Journeys. One Canada.
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  • Cristoforo Colombo by Bruno
    … So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … I’ll see papà again … …
  • All or Nothing by Jessica
    … we were invited too. My mom was very involved with the Filipino community, so my dad would take us to support the events and …
  • Bill, Barbara and Jim Pryor
    … 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. He was posted back to Gt. Britain in Oct. …
  • Josip Devcich
    … In September 1956, my mother and father and three of us children … My father took eleven individuals in the boat with our family and we traveled across the Adriatic to Ancona, Italy. Part way across the Adriatic, the engine died and there was great panic as …
  • Concetta, Laura and Teresa DiPietro
    … On December 31, 1958, Zio Mimi took us to Naples where we were to start a new voyage and adventure to our new home somewhere over … do this to us, I thought, but it had to be done to join my father in Canada. He had been away since 1956. For 10 days this was our home. For …
  • Stories
    Stories in Italian Andrea Nicolosi and Maria Soccorsa Children's Stories Amerigo Lupinacci Elise Marini Robert Sapienza Family Stories Addolorata Salvatorelli-Di Falco Adolfo Di Mambro Antonino Masciotra Cesidio Mariani Domenico Stagliano Gabriella Frainetti nee Di Giovanni Giulio Cesare and …
  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    … keep in regular contact because "it just seems like random things come up where I have to edit my identity from the ways that I remember …
  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    … keep in regular contact because "it just seems like random things come up where I have to edit my identity from the ways that I remember …
  • Guenther Ivens
    … 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 …
  • Experiences of Place: Immigration Experiences in Sault Ste. Marie
    … 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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