• Empress of Ireland - The Model
    … model. Everything on this model is built by hand. It didn’t come out of a box. It took me, approximately, about 800 hours over a … worked on it for 15 minutes. Then there were days I didn’t touch it at all. I just thought about what I was gonna do. And always think ahead, … one standing at the wheel, there’s a bell, and there’s a chart on the wall. I put those in first and then put the roof on the wheelhouse. You …
  • Jebunnessa Chapola
    … Finding Support in the Bengali Community Time 0:02:03 Transcript I think whenever you meet your … or people from your own community the first thing is that you will be relaxed, relaxed in a sense that very quickly you can exchange some …
  • Clarecia Christie
    … Dealing with Winter Time 0:01:43 Transcript But for me the winter was, … ten with a windchill factor of, um, minus thirty or something. It feels like minus thirty, or something like that, and it’s going to be windy. And I went out there. And I tell you, if I didn’t have to go where I was going, I would have turned …
  • The Smell of War in the Air - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 3:12 Transcript: Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ) : So Yugoslavia was falling apart and, and some, parts of it already declared as, as … hear guns closer and closer coming to my place. And, and you could feel this uneasiness all around us. And, and men were taking arms already … The Smell of War in the Air - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich …
  • The Right Mixture by May
    … Time 0:03:54 Transcript As a child, I spoke only Icelandic until I began school in grade one. I grew up knowing that … Icelanders. When my cousin arranged a blind date for a Christmas social and I found out he was Ukrainian. I gasped! My date said, "Would you … In some aspects our cultures seemed very different. Determined to overcome these issues we worked together to create a melded family. …
  • A Look Back by Jenny
    … Time 0:04:52 Transcript It was 2:00 a.m. Our family was rudely awakened by two Russian soldiers armed with rifles and were told to pack a few things, and we would return in a few days. We were all loaded into box cars, hundreds of us and travelled by train to … My uncle was in the Soo since after WWI. He made the papers for us to come to Canada. We said our good-byes and sailed to Canada in the hopes …
  • Intermediate Countries and the Separation of Family - Richard Tshimanga
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada CMIP 21 · Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 3:17 Transcript (This audio is only available in … stayed and I liked Zurich. And I started procedures so my family could come over to join me. I tried but it didn't work. One of the reasons …
  • Stereotypes Hurt by Eric
    … started doing my presentation. My English wasn’t fluent like everyone else, and my class mate started laughing at me. I felt so disrespected, … the end of 2003 when I found myself at 17 years old in a Refugee camp alone, I wondered how will I survive in this camp because I was not … me a job. Three months later, I was in the restaurant working when the commandant and two other men came to take me away. I asked them in …
  • Andrew Peller
    … Scotia to a wind swept frozen Manitoba and then back to Ontario eventually landing in a small German community in Kitchener, Ontario. Canada … Today, Andrew Peller Limited is the largest Canadian-owned winery with more than 1,200 employees and award winning wines from Peller Estates, … imagined that the $5.00 in his pocket would turn into a company worth more than $300 million today. In 1994, at age 90 Andrew Peller died. …
  • Who is that giant bear?
    … Fenton poses with a family during the Museum’s Canada Day celebrations. Visitors to Canada Day and other special celebrations at the Museum are likely to see a giant teddy bear … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story …