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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. …
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Canadian Multiculturalism Act, 1988 …
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Shaping a Community Black Refugees in Nova Scotia …
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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 …
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Royal Commission on Italian Immigration, 1904-1905 …
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Time 0:03:22 Transcript My memories of the ten day voyage were very mixed. I was excited to be on a ship but I saw so many sad people that I was confused. I remember people crying hard and waving handkerchiefs in the air. I looked over the side and saw big fish following the ship. I now realize …
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Lobster dip with ka’ak al-Quds, the first recipe created by the Museum’s Perfect Pairings program. Photo by Lumi Studios. Have you noticed that we at the Museum are a little obsessed with food these days? There’s a few reasons for that. Firstly, we’re cooking up a new exhibition about food called …
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by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated December 21, 2023) Anti-Semitic Exclusion and Canada’s Immigration Policies From the inception of Canada’s federal immigration structure at Confederation until the massive resettlement programs following the Second World War, Canadian immigration policy and …