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… Our family story begins with my great-grandfather Nicodemo Piccolo. It amazes our family to this date, the courage this man had to set out to a strange unknown … make a better life for his family. We understand that he attempted to come to Canada many times but failed without the proper documents. …
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… Di Mambro was born in Cassino, Lazio, Italy on January 7, 1950. His family decided, in 1959, to immigrate to Canada and join other relatives here. They left Cassino to go to Naples, June 18, 1959. …
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… Time 0:02:22 Transcript My name is Htee Tha kway. When I was three years old my mother and father had a … had little house in the forest and big garden. In the garden there is vegies, mango trees, and fruits. Every time when my grandpa is going … I was excited because I never seen snow before. When I was in grade one I started to go to boys and girl club. Now I am in grade 5. Every …
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… we lived in the church area in my childhood, we had many foreign visitors. I asked I can travel with them. I never got to go anywhere but … As an active young person, I wanted always to make different in the community, and seeing people suffering from AIDS, drug abuse, and … leadership skills. I made many presentations in Whitehorse schools. One day, I told the youth here that in Tanzania there are not much …
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… Time 0:02:09 Transcript My name is Kelvin Ng, I am an immigrant from Hong Kong which is a famous and … As the time pass I soon turn in to the age of 10 and the time has come. I miss everything I had in Hong Kong, but I know life is like a … because I think I am not part of this country. Unit 1 year late , that one day my school open a dance party in valentine's day, through the …
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… loved the bright orange lifebuoy soap. Grandma’s house was warm and welcoming. She was too. And I was shocked when I was six and she suddenly … she was born in England, my family got to live there and absorb English culture. I felt English. When I decided to go to Cornwall to find … birthplace, again, the car almost took me there. A big, dark stone house high on green rolling moorland, South of Launceston, …
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… Petursdottir and Sigurdur Bjarnason and Petrun Petursdottir and Kristjan Kristjansson, born in Iceland and coming to Canada… my parents were Gudrun Gudlog Kristjansson and Bjarni … English community of about 2500 this Bjarnasson name was a difficult one to pronounce. There were only 5 other Icelandic families in the …
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… Time 0:02:44 Transcript I planned my life to have a career in media communication and with my mind set I spent my life to achieve that … lights, jovial sounds and towering building trying to reach the sky. One day I was informed that our family are moving to Canada and for me … world of media. Aboard the plane on my way to Canada I started to envision my life in the media scene but when I arrived in Whitehorse what …
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… In 1947 I felt that there was not much future for me in Ireland as the economy was very depressed. I decided to immigrate to Canada. My … Farm, building an award winning purebred Ayrshire herd in the process. One of my duties on the farm was to show our cattle and compete with …
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… dream was in my mind every day when I woke up in the houses made of twisted trees with plastic on top. Most people at the camp want to be … with the name, time, date and location for resettlement interviews. One day I was in my office as a school principal, when I received a phone call from my friend: my name was on the UNHCR notice board for …