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… located on a panel in the Museum’s (pre-2015) core exhibition sheds light on an interesting yet underexplored aspect of Canadian immigration history: food confiscation. Food can be a … including customs officers—and new arrivals from across the globe. The site of contest—Pier 21—was a series of buildings linked together by …
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Time 0:04:26 Transcript Life before we had to leave Iraq, before the war, was pretty good. My dad had a really good job, and he made good money. He worked for the United Nations as a forklift driver, he would stack food into trucks to be delivered to refugees. We had to leave our wealth, our house …
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Time 0:03:43 Transcript May 2012 was when I heard the news. I had to wrap up my last 10 years in 10 days. I was going moving again, but this time it was different. When I was 8 years old, my mother took me in the moonlight down to the harbour in Kismayo. She put me on a boat, knowing that many …
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… As a former British child war evacuee who came to Canada under the … late, Della and Carl Allen of "Four Winds Farm" Upper Cape, N.B., on Baie Verte some 30 miles from Sackville. Our arrival in Upper Cape … introduce myself - somewhat more than a little changed from the small red-head of eleven she had bid farewell five years earlier. After …
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… History, and I completed an experiential education placement with the Canadian Museum of Immigration in 2022. The placement was with CMI’s … (57), community (53), reasons for moving (28), settlement programs (26), religion (20), and general insights (5). I would like to highlight … examples from the interviews for the work and reflection codes. Work: “…a big honour for the team.” An example of a segment coded under …
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… 7:15 the voyage begins. In front of the church in the town of Neer, we bid farewell to Mr. Kapelaan Haenen and Father Sillekens, and one last … by Father Beurskens from Baarlo (our cousin). With fond farewells, we set off as the soil of our beloved town of Neer vanished beneath our feet. We were in high spirits on the bus, which took the edge off the seriousness of such a huge event. Even though this major …
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… Flight Lieutenant Orland Ross Down (1922-2009) The late Orland Ross Down passed through Pier 21 four times between 1941 … young man from Charlottetown who joined the RCAF in 1940, trained in Canada as a wireless-operator/air-gunner and left for overseas from …
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… Steven F. Kucha, Jr. (Istvan Kucsa, Jr.) left from his homeland of Fot, Hungary, with his mother (Mary), and sailed from Antwerp on the ship called the Minnedosa …
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… It was exciting as well as scary because we were going to the big city of Naples from our small town of Popoli. population 6,000, in the … because we stopped in Genoa, outside of Cannes and then Halifax. The ride was pretty calm while we were in the Mediterranean but not so once … we got to Halifax it was foggy, the ship would sound the horn at set intervals and for some reason they had strung ropes around the …
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… itself been a trial. Under Nazi occupation, my father, Herman, had become involved in Resistance activities, a risk which was finally … in Halifax. However we were not to continue our journey as planned. An official mistakenly suspected that the fever of the youngest was a … rented pillows. The food available was sandwiches, so at the Quebec City stop Dad got off the train to try to purchase some other fare. As …