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… 13, 1964 Age on Arrival: 21 My Immigration Voyage from Scotland to Canada At the age of 21, I made the decision to leave Scotland to get … a three storey close with 5 doors on each landing and 1 washroom. Everyone took turns cleaning the stairs and washrooms. We children were … by train, switched trains in Montreal to Toronto. Arrived on a Saturday at Union Station and I remember it was snowing. I didn’t bring a …
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by Steven Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 21, 2021) “The problem is a vexing one” A Formal Agreement with the Government: the Privilegium Some of the earliest European agricultural settlers in Canada’s Prairie West were Russian Mennonites. Two disparate political events provided a crucial …
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… Finding Support in the Bengali Community Time 0:02:03 Transcript I think whenever you meet your … Bangladesh. In 2003, Jebunnessa left her home to complete graduate studies in social work in Sweden. After completing her master’s degree she … to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where her husband began his doctoral studies. Currently, Jebunnessa works as an activist, singer, radio host …
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… my family (parents and 2 older brothers) from the Netherlands to PEI, Canada in March of 1953. The decision to immigrate was made by my … while my brothers stayed with my father in separate quarters. The days spent in Halifax were with friends we had made on the boat. During … they lived until 1979. After 48 years, Canada is the land of milk and honey. The family grew, my brothers got married and between them had 5 …
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… months later, she began working in a bookstore. Her husband Clayton completed his doctorate and now works in a Montreal laboratory. At the …
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… refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination … system . As part of the re-evaluation process, the federal government commissioned three successive reports concluding that Canada’s refugee … refugee based on the advice received from the Refugee Status Advisory Committee (RSAC) which had been created with the implementation of the …
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… Halifax, Nova Scotia Date of Arrival: March 31, 1960 Age on Arrival: 26 Erika Hertel was born Sept 23, 1934, the oldest of four siblings. …
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… Preservation is a way of keeping digital material alive so that they can be accessed long into the future, even as the technological tools … our catalogue to improve full-text searching ii . We have also been scanning some beautiful hand-written stories from the filing cabinets. … copy v , with a lower resolution JPEG as the access copy vi that you can view on the Image search page . This means we preserve the best …
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… 1940s and 1950s. Luigi had returned from three terrible years as a Prisoner of War for three years from 1942 to 1945. He had suffered forced … they would travel to the neighbouring town called Sannicola. While on one of his walks, he saw a young lady sitting outside her home doing … became rougher. It was difficult sleeping at night, but during the day, Luigi and a newly found friend would go to the centre of the ship …
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… research. I use “queer” occasionally as shorthand for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, very advisedly: I am reminded that many of my friends would … Fortier entitled “A Review of Immigration from the British West Indies.” The memo states that “it has long been the policy of this … trigger ostracization, and end a career . In 1964, a civil servant died of a heart attack during RCMP interrogation about his sexuality, …