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… of age (that's me, Rita) along with her trunk of belongings. She recalls that at one point an official at the warehouse came by to assist … said excitedly "Broken, Broken". She was terrified the trunk would fall apart and the contents spill out. Upon hearing my mother speak … often correct others, in their speaking and grammar (!) and helped all 3 of her children with their school work. For a short time she also …
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… 34 Marziano Duronio was born March 28, 1916 in Prata D’Ansidonia, a small commune just south of L’Aquila in Abruzzo, Italia. He was the … With the aid of the Colasanti family of Ruthven, Marziano was eventually able to finance Violetta’s trip to Canada. Violetta and the first … Marziano and Violetta made the move to Windsor, Ontario, eventually buying a home on Erie St. (today also known as “Via Italia”) in …
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… We sailed from Liverpool the next morning on March 13th. The ship was called the Carinthia it was her 13th crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. … Halifax. As we stood there looking at Pier 21, I realized that I had come full circle and all the memories of our journey to Canada came flooding back. It was …
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… General's Footguards of Canada, still himself a young man, in the fall of 1945. The Second World War was nearing completion and Wilfred's … England to escape detection by the German air force. They met by chance in High Wycombe and quickly fell in love. Not long after, on … on January 14th of 2007. During that time she gave birth to eleven more children. At the time of her passing, she was a grandmother of 22 …
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… Time 0:03:39 Transcript Here I am. Visiting my homeland 23 years later. I was born and raised in Germany. In East … specific. Germany was separate for 40 years, and I grew up in the socialism part. That part was the only part I knew. We were not allowed to … people here in the Yukon, I began to believe in myself. I learned to become a professional child care worker and after years I decided to go …
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… Still I knew it was what I wanted. At that time, the Korean art field was very contemporary. We learned Korean and Western modern art. In my third year, my teacher Chang Woo Sung invited us to his Traditional Korean Art studio. In one long brush stroke he created a hard rock, in another a very light feather. I felt the wind blowing through the branches he painted. With each brush …
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… and raised in Shanghai; I graduated from university in 1989, fortunately, I had my education free, and I was guaranteed job. My wife and I … China’s economy take off and we benefited from that growth, but not always. In 2011, we took one month and half to find a good school for my boy, through all our possible channels. You needed connections to get a good school for your child. Till …
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… I was the child. My grandmother Vernie came to Trinidad and took myself and my sister back to St Vincent & the Grenadines. Growing up on a coconut plantation on St Vincent I experience all form of abuse, hunger and I can now say slavery. When I got older, I found work in the hotel industry as a waiter, bartender, butler and manager. One September I …
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… First Job in Canada Time 0:01:49 Transcript And it was—I was so extremely happy because this happen in November and I knew I was going to … start to work and, it wasn’t only cleaning house it was a lot of personal care. I didn’t know, I—I was—I remember—and most of the clients were … to immigrate to Canada after talking to Pedro’s brother who had come to Winnipeg, Manitoba as a refugee shortly after the coup. Ruth, …
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… We discussed how distance can be the number of kilometers between Halifax and their homeland and how it can also be the socially acceptable physical space … can also be understood as a social disconnection between people. I come from 2 stories: my parents didn’t grow up in the same country. My … The Distance by Daniel …