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… and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia when war called, and sailed from Pier 21 in July of 1942. He died in the skies … the Oulu area of Finland when her older sister Jenny encouraged her to come to work as a domestic in in a family home in Toronto. Lauri and … mailing address for keeping contact with friends and relatives.Many newcomers met their future spouses here. After meeting and courtship Lauri …
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… March 9 to November 15, 2019 What is family, anyway? Can you pick your family or is it determined by biology? Is family the people you share holidays with? Or, is it more of a feeling? Family Bonds and Belonging honours and interprets … the joy and complexities of bonds and belonging. Family: It’s NOT all relative. This exhibition was originally produced by the Royal BC …
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… make a better life for his family. We understand that he attempted to come to Canada many times but failed without the proper documents. Finally, in April 1929 his dream became a reality and he set off from … old enough to partake on a journey of their own. They too left the small town of Mammola and Boarded the Queen Frederica at 4:00 pm in …
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… are glad that we took the big step. Our three daughters born here are all well educated and glad to be Canadian. So this is my story in …
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… Time 0:02:15 Transcript Two weeks ago, Herv ask me if I want to talk about how I came to Canada.. At home I thought what to say… In my … us. The reason why we came to Canada is not because we just like to come. We came because our life is in danger and sometime the Burmese … to see my friend and families that are still in the refugee camp. I feel bad for them because they had to stay there and sometime it’s hard …
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… husband. I told you that I loved you often but I could have told you more often. I touched you often, but I could have touched you more. I remember that first kiss in Corner Brooke. I can still taste it today so sweet so giving so wonderful. I remember … your uncle’s grave and renewing your commitment to peace. I remember all those summers in Cape Breton and Antigonish. Playing spoons …
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… Time 0:02:09 Transcript My name is Kelvin Ng, I am an immigrant from Hong Kong which is a famous and well … grade 5, in that time I don’t have the basic knowledge of what really happen, it just feel like a very far away thing to me in that … As the time pass I soon turn in to the age of 10 and the time has come. I miss everything I had in Hong Kong, but I know life is like a …
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… up before the rest of the family followed. He came aboard the ship called the Saturnia, through Halifax Pier 21. Our Mom, my brother and … Pier 21 on October 21, 1952. The ride across the Atlantic was really rocking and rolling; everyone was sick for the whole seven days. … happy that Canada became our home. Two years later we moved to Beardmore Ontario and later we were blessed with two more brothers, Adriano …
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… Margarita Bruehler nee Sosnowsky to Paraguay if her brother hadn’t come down with the chickenpox. Margarita’s early childhood memories are … accommodations in freight trains, barns and refugee camps, she recalled. Some of her memories have faded but she will never forget the … were able to make arrangements to sponsor us. Back to camp again, more waiting. Our last camp was near the harbour of Bremenhaven. We …
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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:50 Transcript Yeah, so, I left. I was with uh, … seen, I have never seen anything like that. We lived uh, we went to Salzburg, which is a beautiful city in the Alps, just a beautiful, … I learned to know then, and who I consider to this day to be an absolutely wonderful man. A very simply man. A real—real peasant, for lack …