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… son Alastair Douglas arrived at Pier 21 in June 1946. We were aboard the Queen Mary with many "War Brides" and their children. Each of us was met by a serviceman, who picked up my 2 … John Bellamy and Robert Gray, and as Prime Minster Mackenzie king had said on board that he hoped our children would enjoy being Canadian …
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… bought some and drank it like wine but it tasted like vinegar, so we said that the wine in Canada is sour like vinegar. Our train ride to …
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… steps forwards and backwards was a series of difficult life lessons. “I consider Canada to be my university,” he says. The youngest of four, Abdoulaye grew up in Guinea-Conakry …
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… was a collective of 6 women photographers from and working in SWANA (South West Asian, North African Region). For her residency, Abdul Hadi …
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… Interpreter Time 0:00:59 Transcript: So I painted a mural of Quebec City. As the ship was leaving, the Empress of Ireland was getting ready … that people were seeing. So it’s a recognizable silhouette of Quebec City, with the hills going up and then you see the fortress, the … have—more contemporary that you might recognize. But it starts to set you into the mood so that, as you go through the exhibit, you’re …
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… new members. A famous Lebanese Poet, Gibran Khalil Gibran, once said, ‘I felt in my heart to give a little because I was given so …
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… On December 31, 1958, Zio Mimi took us to Naples where we were to start a new voyage and adventure to our new home … was a consolation. This priest devoted himself to the children. He said mass on the Epiphany (January 6) but where was my "befana" who …
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… States Time 0:01:07 Transcript Tom Corcoran (TC): Yup. So I didn’t come back and as soon as I didn’t come back, I lost whatever college deferment I had as far as the … did. He said, “If you decide that you want to stay there, we’ll just come and visit you instead of you having to come and visit us,” which …
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… my friends. After the many bus rides and plane rides, we arrived at Welcome House. The house was very different from the houses in Thailand. I … on it all the time when I was bored. My family didn’t stay in welcome house for so long. In Langley my family stayed in one of my mom’s …
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… for my mother and younger siblings. The conditions motivated me to set sail on the Saturnia for Canada, in search of “pane e lavoro” (bread and work). I arrived in … Tribunal because all along my passion was for worker’s rights. On the side, I was also the host of “Labour News” on Rogers Cable TV and also, …