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… Citizenship and Belonging to a Country Time 0:02:27 Transcript ES: The day of the … for us is for something new because well we have to be in front of all the—the judge and immigration people that they came from Calgary, … here and the mayor of the city. Okay we swear that we are going to become a good citizens and we sing “O Canada” and they give us the …
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… Alexandros Dimitreos Sourtzis was born in a small village of Frantzi, Ftheotida, Greece on April 2, 1928 to parents … music festivals in his village. It gave him great joy when he had the chance to sing and dance at these events that would last into the wee … rest of his life. He wanted to learn a trade. So at 19, he chose to become an auto mechanic and went to a garage as an apprentice. Later, …
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… Time 0:03:05 Transcript I am from a typical small town in a nice part of the Alberta prairies. You might know … school-lives. I so badly wanted to fit in that I subjected myself to the horror of sleeping-over with two different groups, in order to solidify my inclusion in at least one. Except this discomfort around belonging was also something deeper. It was part of the …
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… with my parents and my brother. The big house had five other flats and all of my neighbors doted on the only little girl in this place. I felt completely free and a sense of belonging. When I was ten we moved to …
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… my father was born on a farm close to Poznan, Poland in a village called Komorowo. He was one of six children of Jan Maciejewski and … of Polish soldiers was captured by the Germans. At that time, he was allowed to return to his family farm. Then, in June 1940, all his family was expelled from the family farm. Stan, his brothers …
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… in the winter of 2007. In that December, we received winter storms almost every week; people wore heavy boots and thick coats, streets were piled up with snow like grey walls. Coming from Taiwan where we have six months of summer, I wondered how … At the same time, I was determined to stay strong for my children: feeling sorry for us was never our intention for immigration. Something …
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… Time 0:03:12 Transcript I never thought I would say “No” to come to Canada until the day I actually had to leave my country. As a kid I always wanted to come to a … and one pair of pants because we had to flee. We hid in a truck which delivers food to soldiers in the borders and we started our journey. …
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… for England. World War II was well under way and the British needed all the military help they could get. They first went to Spitzbergen to … In July of that year, they moved to Calgary for two years and had one more son. In 1961, they moved to Edmonton, Alberta where they settled down and had two more sons. John Squarok passed away in 1993. …
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… biology, I did not know where I was standing anymore. I had worked myself very hard and I was feeling aimless. I lost interest in things that would normally never fail to make me happy. I needed out. I chose Iceland for its … He loved drifting there until everybody leaned over the rails, only to come up just then and blow his fishy breath into everybody’s faces. One …