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… home immediately. Neither one of us knew a word of English, however we had four lovely children, all educated and great careers. My wife passed on at the age of 65 in 1990. I've since stayed on my own, however blessed with caring children and … me alive in the first city that welcomed us to a new life. Pier 21's Wall of Honour to Immigrants is like the Stanley Cup to Canadians! Mr. …
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… more specific. Germany was separate for 40 years, and I grew up in the socialism part. That part was the only part I knew. We were not allowed … different attitude. He wanted to get out of the country, he said, he will go to Canada. And he did. I stayed behind. In the summer of 1989 … people here in the Yukon, I began to believe in myself. I learned to become a professional child care worker and after years I decided to go …
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… Korean Art in Canada-My Life, My Art by Young Ju …
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… first winter, my financial situation and the great loneliness of being so far and away from Mexico were all factors that really made me doubt … and a couple of years later we got engaged. I was now starting to become really hesitant to go back to Mexico … many things changed and my … otherwise! I won’t ever forget Mexico! I am proud of my heritage and will always be, so let me put it in these words: I will never stop …
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… reasons . The accommodation dormitories ran along the west (inland) wall of the second storey of Shed 21. These were large, plain rooms …
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… eight years old and the only thing I recall about the trip was being so seasick, I never left the room. Needless to say my mother and father must have had their hands full with eight children and my mother expecting the …
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… Becoming a Refugee Time 3:12 Transcript: Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ) : So Yugoslavia was falling apart and, and some, parts of it already … as independent states, and, and I could hear guns closer and closer coming to my place. And, and you could feel this uneasiness all around …
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… I hear that we are going to Canada, I just think that it is a joke or something like that. When my mom started picking our clothes and … In Cameroon they told us, when we came to the airport, there would be someone with a cap or a shirt of the UN, but we couldn’t find him. … I am your counsellor. He asked for our papers and he brought us to Welcome Place. At first, I didn’t even see the city well, because there …
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… were living with their large family in the poor agricultural region of southern Italy, Calabria. They lived in the town of San Giorgio Margeto where they had been born and married and were now raising four children, Domeninco … war Italy and made the decision to emigrate to Canada. Choosing to come to Canada made the most sense given that both had family already …
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… there and it never came into my mind that I would live in Canada someday. All things were changed because of my daughter. She graduated … then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … to do something to cheer myself up. I enrolled an English Class in the community center near to us. I became a student when I was 65 years …