• Silvio, Teresa e Marisa Bozzo
    … Silvio, Teresa, e Marisa Bozzo / An Immigration Story It all began back in the beautiful, medieval town of Donnici Superiore, … Teresa raised four children (Marisa, Italo, Sandra, Linda) and eventually become the grandparents of six precious grandchildren (Mark, …
  • Assunta, Livia, Lisa e Natale Leardi
    … else that amount would cover of his daily expenses! He also remembers all the good food he ate on the ship, and that he spent his days by the …
  • My Story from Africa to Canada by Azouber
    … Time 0:01:52 Transcript Hello, that's me, Azouber, I'm going to tell you about my story. When I was in Sudan with my dad, my mom, my … my sister on the leg. My other sister left and we went to Chad, by walking, running, running, running, running, running, all over the …
  • One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort
    … and his wife, my little brother and myself, and my brother Lou; we all shared one bed. “There was nowhere to sleep because my father had what they called in those days—it was a couch, but they called it a lounge, and … things I recall, I guess because…there are certain freedoms that you can’t describe that…worries were taken off your shoulder.” And was Vita …
  • We Never Talk About Hope - Bwe Doh Soe
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 1:00 Transcript To me, like, because we are … about hoping to become something, you know? I thinks because we are always—we are born with a culture, and we are born with a people who … my family might have disabused that with such the very, I was, ten or eleven, or twelve, I didn’t know a lot. All I do is, like, go around, …
  • Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration, 1885
    … created competition for white labour and prevented the immigration of more desirable white European immigrants. Support for Chinese … Instances of crime, disease, prostitution and gambling were not more prevalent amongst the Chinese than in other ethnic communities, …
  • Guilt About Leaving - Robert Porter
    … and friends, neighborhood, what your familiar with. You know, it was really difficult on many levels. I felt really guilty. I was leaving behind people that I knew, you … little apprehensive still when I cross the border to the US and when I come home. There's that sigh of relief as you come across to Canadian …
  • Roberto Pellegrini
    … few who survived! He was even taken prisoner by the Germans and eventually managed to escape. Sadly, my father passed away in 1997 so I never really got to hear all the tales like I would have liked to. As the years passed, my father decided to come to Canada to get married to his fiancé from back home who would …
  • Antonietta Gallelli
    … THIS IS MY STORY (by Antonietta Gallelli) It was July 21, 1955 when the ship Volcanic left Naples's … The excitement I felt at the prospect of venturing to a new land, all the way on the other side of the ocean, and my desire for … By now, my anticipation was so great that the time it took to actually dock seemed lengthier than the entire trip. Fantasy turned to …
  • Learning How to Eat a Banana in Quarantine at Pier 21
    … pears, plums, or for that fact lemons which we had eaten peel and all, dipped in sugar, which UNRRA (United Nations Refugee Relief Org.) …