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  • Elisa e Giorgio Patella
    Elisa e Giorgio Patella …
  • Mario Bilucaglia
    Mario Bilucaglia …
  • Cookbooks, Cultural Connections, And Migration
    By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian Introduction They took me to Woolco—which doesn’t exist now. Woolco was Scotia Square’s last department store. And we bought pots and pans. Since she realized I hadn’t cooked before, we bought a cookbook called The I Never Cooked Before Cookbook. I still have it…it …
  • Immigration Regulations, Order-in Council PC 1967-1616, 1967
    Immigration Regulations, Order-in Council PC 1967-1616, 1967 …
  • Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1971
    Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1971 …
  • A Look Back by Jenny
    Time 0:04:52 Transcript It was 2:00 a.m. Our family was rudely awakened by two Russian soldiers armed with rifles and were told to pack a few things, and we would return in a few days. We were all loaded into box cars, hundreds of us and travelled by train to Archangel, Siberia 2,000 km from home. …
  • Canadian Multiculturalism Act, 1988
    Canadian Multiculturalism Act, 1988 …
  • Shaping a Community Black Refugees in Nova Scotia
    Shaping a Community Black Refugees in Nova Scotia …
  • Per la amore to Canada by Pina
    Time 0:03:45 Transcript Canada was looking for specialist technicians so my husband applied and was accepted and I joined him one year later. We were married by proxy in ‘55 and I came over in ‘56. The day I left Italy-I was 24 and living in a little town. It was really, really early. We were all …
  • Royal Commission on Italian Immigration, 1904-1905
    Royal Commission on Italian Immigration, 1904-1905 …

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