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… my Master’s in India. But I knew we were moving away. I was going to come as a foreign student’s spouse – and I knew this would limit me … found a job in Lethbridge, Alberta, I said “now it’s time for me to complete my dream.” Over the next 15 years, I worked at the University … my undergrad, Master’s, and PHD. It took me from 1976 until 2004 to complete my dream of education. I am still working towards my dream …
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… growing vegetables. My parents used to tell me that in Burma the soldiers would burn all the vegetables that they grew and they have to … when she was a girl. She had to gather food for her family. She would compare to me because I can’t cook. She tells me that I have so many … that she didn’t have. My mom would tell me about how Burmese soldiers would come to her village and burn the houses. She said that they …
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… my Dad told me I would not go beyond grade 8. I was not able to complete my school assignment because we didn’t have the money to pay … I finished my education in Kenya and came to Canada to further my studies. Initially, it was scary in a new country without close family and …
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… Time 0:03:59 Transcript I was born in Trinidad my mother died in childbirth and I was told I was the child. My grandmother …
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… In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we … ask visitors to share with us their family traditions and customs. The point of this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them …
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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 2:31 Transcript Yella Zahirovich (YZ): We know … was a man who immigrate to Canada in ’60s, and then he would come and we would all go around him to touch and to see what kind of man is that to go to that far away place? I had idea where I was coming, though in my mind it was exotic place. YZ: So, we, I think you …
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… Charles Midgley was born in York, England in 1882. By age 20 he had become the head gardener for a big estate. At the same time his desire … on the land. Some simple tools may have been available but this was accomplished through hard manual labour and all this done at times during … family were very industrious and persistent people. My grandmother died the year before I was born but I had the good fortune of knowing …
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… in Canada and something he dearly missed. As he so passionately said, “it’s the simple things in life that bring us the greatest joy.” …
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… was 1847. Famine , a sculpture by Rowan Gillespie located in Dublin’s City Centre, depicts people walking towards the harbour, to be carried … not all remained there, this would temporarily have nearly doubled the city’s population of 20,000. Tension and hostility Many immigrants were …
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… was 1847. Famine , a sculpture by Rowan Gillespie located in Dublin’s City Centre, depicts people walking towards the harbour, to be carried … not all remained there, this would temporarily have nearly doubled the city’s population of 20,000. Tension and hostility Many immigrants were …