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… I look back on how Canada has changed me and my values. I think the hardest part of … should be done. I was brought up to understand that the British knew how to do things correctly. – Adrienne Brown nee Drought, 1961 …
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… RACCONTO DI VITA: CANDIDA FRANCA IACCINO (dedico questa mia storia ai miei … 42 anni assieme alla mia famiglia: mio marito Carmine, i miei figli Joe (Giosino), Gilda, Susie, mio genero Vito, l'altro genero, Rudy non … di tante lacrime e tristezza. La città di Halifax è bellissima la sua storia è commovente (tutti coloro che sono sbarcati da quel Porto …
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… professionals and skilled tradespeople. This article examines how these refugees navigated language training and barriers to employment, including professional accreditation, and examines how this experience shaped bureaucratic and public views of refugee …
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… we were obliged to return to the “Reich”. We ended up in the “Gau” of Mecklenburg, not far from the Elbe river, where I went to … away was the town of Luebtheen, with a population of 5000 people, with some fine buildings and many linden trees. The market square was in the … in a wooden shed, which figured somewhat in my life. On Sundays I had to accompany my grandmother to that faraway church. Her right hand …
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… in Fulham, London, England. I was married on May 4th, 1944 to L/Cpl Hugh Archibald MacRae , Canadian Provost Corp, who was born in …
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… and I are about to celebrate 50 years of marriage, and I think of how far we have come since then and how we have provided our family with a better life. Maria D'Ambrosio, …
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… My mother passed away at the age of 86. She loved her adopted country so much that a trial return to the UK to live, in the late seventies, … Canada in 1981. We came with the War Brides, but to join my father who had come as an immigrant. As an RAF aircrew trainee, he had been a …
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May 13 to July 23, 2023 Chinese Head Tax Certificate issued to Lee Wing, 1916. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Collection, [R2021.48.6] Artwork, historical objects and documents reflect artist JJ Lee’s Chinese Maritime family’s immigration experience in this new temporary exhibition. The …
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… with his mother, Mary, father Owen, sister Rose and brothers John, Hugh and James. One week later, April 13, 1929 they arrived at Pier 21, … Joseph O'Hara, John, Mary, James, Rose, Owen Jr., Owen Sr., and Hugh. …
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… Korean Art in Canada-My Life, My Art by Young Ju …