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… driver piled in to their car to go to Naples. We were immigrating to Canada. Our journey was starting at 3 am and just like what was laying … the modern ships I am sure that it must have looked quite small by today's standards. The ship interior was like a hotel and fancy … , Immigrant Landed". An interesting incident happened while we were docked at Halifax. We heard a commotion and what we found out was that …
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… Xianqin Yang was born and raised in Shandong Province, China. After completing an undergraduate degree and master’s degree in microbiology, … not get a visa for the United States, she decided to continue her studies in Canada. She received a full scholarship from the University of Waterloo. …
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… various British Dominions. Among my parents’ friends, some went to Canada, sending back positive reports which encouraged my parents to join … at Westinghouse where he worked in Hamilton. Given that my purpose in coming to Canada was to financially help my parents, I had thought it … on her seventeenth birthday. As we got to know each other, I became completely captivated. During all this time, I had been surprised to …
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… lost all our savings that took years to build up. But, we had our own company that we could sell and we had money to leave, lots of people … would. Lot of Icelanders were moving to Norway but we wanted something completely different, and that was Canada. I called my good friend Sigrun Stella in Toronto to get some …
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… at sea. She had nothing left in Iceland to hold her. She came to Canada to her friends’ home where she was going to stay until she could … guest. The next day, he came back and said to Thora: “You may as well come home with me.” She needed a place and he needed a wife. They were … still farms. The neighbours were all of Icelandic ancestry and the common language in our community was Icelandic. Afi Johann lived with …
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… Time 0:02:45 Transcript From its creation out of Lake Agassiz to today, Lake Winnipeg has long been generous to those who understood its … use it. We set out rowing at six in the morning on a beautiful spring day. Fishing was good and we did not get caught by the Fish lnspectors. …
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… my mother I was closer to New York and knew that I would be there one day. I was fortunate in that I could speak Yiddish and could at least …
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… Marilyn Carr-Harris. Courtesy of Dr. Afua Cooper. Reckoning with an uncomfortable past is an important part of the job of any national … And Canada was deeply involved through our connections to the West Indies trade and our part in shipping and the British Empire.” The … Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. As part of the 2026 commemoration, the UN will host the exhibition from March 17 to …
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… The Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration was appointed to obtain proof that restricting Chinese immigration to Canada was in the best interest of the country. Approximately 15,000 … for the construction of the railway. However, as the railway neared completion and public dissatisfaction grew, Macdonald yielded to the …