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  • Accessibility Plan and Feedback Process
    … Canada Act – Accessibility Documents 1.1 Accessibility Plan 2026-2028 (PDF) 1.2 Accessibility Plan 2023-2025 (PDF) 1.3 Feedback … hearing to use free Video Relay Service https://srvcanadavrs.ca/en/ . Social Media Feedback is accepted using Facebook Messenger @Canadian … submissions. Feedback Processes and Standards Non-anonymous feedback will be acknowledged within five (5) business days. Acknowledgement …
  • Arriving in Canada: Arepas in Mississauga - Monica Valencia
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:08 Transcript So, we took a plane from Miami to Detroit. And then at Detroit, we just … we liked that because we didn’t feel lonely so we feel that we had company. And his mother-in-law, his mo—yeah, his mother-in-law—she had …
  • Olesya Aleksandrova
    … anything, it was an empty apartment. No spoons no plates, nothing. So we bought first our thing was in Walmart we bought spoons and … Slavic University in 1995. She graduated in 2002 and went on to complete a master’s degree focusing on the medical system in Kyrgyzstan. While completing her degree, Olesya opened a private medical clinic, and …
  • A Match Made on the North Atlantic
    … room to go up on deck. As I left my room, I bumped into this big handsome guy and said, “I’m sick!” He smiled, and I ran upstairs to the … two heads together. That was our first beautiful kiss. We enjoyed the company of each other throughout our trip. We had many walks around the … our new countries and a new life, but in different directions. He was off to Vancouver and I continued on by ship to St. John, New Brunswick, …
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    … Report 2016-2017 Report Senior Leadership Team John Murray, Human Resource Manager 2023-2024 Marie Chapman, Chief Executive Officer 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 Archived: Marie Chapman 2020-2021 … 2020-2021 2019-2020 2018-2019 Jennifer Sutherland, Vice-President, Communications and Partnerships 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 Archived: …
  • Historical Thinking (1) : Practicing History in the Museum
    … Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) In summer 2012, we offered an “historian’s tour” of our temporary exhibition, Shaping … process at our museum. We took that approach for a couple of reasons. First, we want to be as transparent as we can about our work: as … heritage institution, we’d like members of the public to be able to come and talk with us about how we think about the past and how we …
  • Viktor Tretjakewitsch and Family
    Viktor IRO Cert A The family aboard ship. Welly aboard ship The men next to the train Welly and Viktor in front of the house The family under the trees Welly and a friend The family sat the table Four young girls Viktor Man in front of the Museum The family in …
  • L/Cpl Leland M. Pratt
    … future wife, Audrey Smith , a young woman from England. Previously Lee had served with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, Artillery and … to land in France on D-Day. The couple tell two different stories of how they met but agree it was at a dance in Eastleigh's old town hall. Audrey took a sudden dislike to him. When Leland asked Audrey out later she said she had to work and was embarrassed when she met him …
  • John and Gertrude Martens
    … March 1948. Travelled by train through Germany and Holland. Took a boat from Holland across the English Channel. Arrived in Harvick Port. … to the communists. He died on his way to a concentration camp. Then I had to flee across the Ukraine, White Russia, Poland, and Germany with my mother, brothers and sisters, always hoping to some day come to a free country. Coming out of war ravaged Europe, Canada was …
  • Squissato
    … to the train station. We hoped that the worst was behind us. Not so, this was winter and the train carriages were not heated. We … those rail cars was just as cold. We put on every piece of clothing we had in our suitcases. Finally, after three days we arrived in Long Lac, …

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