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  • Filena Bruno Fiorita and Family
    … for his wife, my mother, Filena Bruno Fiorita and my 3 siblings to come to Canada. Filena was already 41 years old and my siblings, Maria, … anticipated letters from her relatives which at that time took many days to arrive. Filena also prepared and sent parcels with staples like … of their parents and grandparents. Dan, their only son, was to become in 1985 the first foreign-born Canadian to be named Canadian …
  • Looking for Identity by Keyvan
    … universities & even they captured many of them & put in prison. One day, after the revolution, our school principal came and in front of all the students told the Bahai’s to stop coming to school from tomorrow. At this moment I felt I lost my …
  • A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary
    … noticed something strange in the Pier 21 exhibition - a discrepancy in dates. In a display case, amongst a collection of luggage brought by … called Canadian Notebook , released in 1952. The film focuses on newcomer families working in four corners of Canada and in four major … closer to the family’s home, where the NFB had arranged a special stop with CN rail. He says, “We got on one door of the train, sat down, …
  • A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary
    … noticed something strange in the Pier 21 exhibition - a discrepancy in dates. In a display case, amongst a collection of luggage brought by … called Canadian Notebook , released in 1952. The film focuses on newcomer families working in four corners of Canada and in four major … closer to the family’s home, where the NFB had arranged a special stop with CN rail. He says, “We got on one door of the train, sat down, …
  • Becky Forshaw Angus
    … spirits. Chub was liberated on May 2nd, 1945 and was repatriated to Canada in July, where he was immediately hospitalized. He continued to … a couple of broom handles. I must say that she made the most of it; it can't have been easy coming to new country and having to stay with a strange family." Having come from such a picturesque part of Scotland, with its many lochs and …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … about the histories of peoples in the lands we now know as Canada, and presented in a way you won’t find anywhere else. Discover … were created by Dr. Daniel Sims, Associate Professor, First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, working with a … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of …
  • Romeo and Maria Zussino Macorig
    … on the ship Saturnia and on December 06, 1958 they were married. The day Mom left Italy (Sanguarzo/Cividale/Udine) her father (Our …
  • Marjorie Franklyne
    … arrived with her first born, a son who was just shy of his first birthday. He was a toddler and she carried him in her arms as she … one arm, and I was doing the same over the other. It lasted about a day. A couple of girls from Holland, war brides, weren't sick and they … wasn't good. I didn't like what I saw. I thought, what the heck have I come to? I took a train from Halifax to Ottawa with John, nobody met …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … about the histories of peoples in the lands we now know as Canada, and presented in a way you won’t find anywhere else. Discover … were created by Dr. Daniel Sims, Associate Professor, First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, working with a … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of …
  • Theresa McGee
    … Origin: Ireland Ship Name: MV Georgic Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: July 15, 1946 Age on Arrival: 20 years old Our mother, … Anne, Mary, Shamus and Gertrude. She married John Gray, a Canadian soldier, in October, 1945, in Fivemiletown. She left for Canada in July, … she met up with her husband, John. They started their life in a small community, Huntingford, in Oxford County. Over the next few years, they …

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