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  • How Whales Helped Me Find a New Home by Jeannine
    … 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 …
  • Where Does My Heart Sing? by Marianne
    … as a child were narrow and limited. When I entered university, I studied architecture and the students were encouraged to travel, …
  • A Mother and Daughter Recall Frightening Days in Quarantine
    … again. While Laima Haddad still hoped to return to her home one day, her family decided to come to Canada in June 1955. “…one was in Montreal, and the others were … A Mother and Daughter Recall Frightening Days in Quarantine …
  • Who Do You Define as Family?
    … and, perhaps most importantly, fostered a sense of community. Since day one of my arrival in Canada, I have been lucky enough to have a … grow up and they start to have questions about their identity. One day, my 11-year-old son asked me this question: “Mom, how many aunties …
  • War Strategies: Plan B - Habib El-Hage
    … you know? Sometimes it was, uhm, a pack of cigarettes for the soldier and then he would let me go through. Sometimes I would give an …
  • Crossing the Big Pond by Monika
    … in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 … to leave home, but my father said, that when I moved out I could never come back. That scared me, so I finished my education and stayed until … Bremerhaven, I met a young Canadian, Wilf, who encouraged me to come to Canada instead of going to Africa. Wilf was sending me big, …
  • The Gerald William Wilson Family
    Gerald's wife Joan Wilson . Gerald's daughter Sandra . Gerald and Joan Wilson A telegram that Joan sent to Gerald Gerald William Wilson Gerald William Wilson Gerald William Wilson Gerald and Sandra Gerald and Sandra Joan with her husband and granddaughter. Sandra and father Gerald …
  • Nikolaos Tsoporis
    … Canada on October 15, 1960 leaving my mother and his son. After a nine-day journey aboard the SS Queen Frederica, my father arrived in Halifax … for Ottawa with a little less then $10.00 in his pocket. After working day and night in an assortment of jobs, my father had saved enough …
  • Pietro e Anna Massari
    … 16, 2012. December 1 st , would have been a typically beautiful day as they departed the Port of Naples. The boat named Homeland set … and the land of plenty, before moving on by train to Oshawa. Now eight days after her 30 th birthday, together with Pietro and their two sons, … now. Hard work and perseverance meant steady work, ability to own a house, cottage property, proper medical care and an education for the …
  • Fredrick Mwenengabo
    … uh, yes , there’s a justice process, influenced by the international community, but he’s already dead. I’ve known many people, colleagues, … a little thinker in a big country of thinkers, and together, when we combine our efforts, I’m convinced we have or will have a world of … due to his ethnic background. This discrimination encouraged him to become an advocate for peace and human rights. Fredrick earned a master’s …

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