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  • An Exotic and Far Away Place - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 2:31 Transcript Yella Zahirovich (YZ): We know … to know. But to me it was really exotic, you know. Canada —we had from one village—there was a man who immigrate to Canada in ’60s, and then … and we would all go around him to touch and to see what kind of man is that to go to that far away place? I had idea where I was coming, …
  • Xianqin Yang
    Difficulty of Being a TA Time 0:02:42 Transcript XY: Um. My school started in January the eighth I believe. Um, the study was okay because I think that we were only required to take, three to five courses, of the courses they were fine, not difficult, and the research I am always interested in …
  • Here & Now by Kate
    … and thick coats, streets were piled up with snow like grey walls. Coming from Taiwan where we have six months of summer, I wondered how … volunteers were in that warm, cozy library; though I hardly knew anyone of them. I knew it was extremely cold out there, but while in the … in a moonlight evening all alone. My husband left us to be with his aging parents. Since then, I have hard time to sleep; quite often I …
  • War Strategies: Plan B - Habib El-Hage
    Life in Canada Time 2:37 Transcript (This video is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) I have to say that what's important, what was interesting in that part of the war, is, uhm. Many things can be said about war, right, many horrible things. In my case, it's …
  • A New Start by Pulchérie
    … Time 0:03:59 Transcript At this stage, the story of my life can be divided into four chapters: … extraordinary individual, and we quickly became close friends. During one of our conversations, I told her about my plan to drive across … about me being alone on the Trans-Canada Highway, Daphnée decided to accompany me in my adventure. I was thrilled because deep down I was …
  • John Devai, Olga Kimpel Devai
    … Ontario where we would meet again. For both my future husband and I, the landing in Canada through the Halifax harbour was like a … work and society, I was at least able to have a plaque at Pier 21 in his memory. Pictures 1 and 2 are of a Hungarian group during the … of the passengers and the important news of the day. I was one of 1100 passengers that came to Canada on that particular crossing. …
  • Andrew Peller
    … When Andrew Peller stepped off the ship at Halifax’s Pier 21 in Spring … for a better life and a better future, he only had five dollars in his pocket but was rich with hope. With his wife Lena and baby son Joe … and wine at the table, just as he had done in Europe, was something he has not really experienced in Canada and something he dearly missed. …
  • Empress of Ireland - The Model
    … model. Everything on this model is built by hand. It didn’t come out of a box. It took me, approximately, about 800 hours over a …
  • Intermediate Countries and the Separation of Family - Richard Tshimanga
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada CMIP 21 · Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 3:17 Transcript (This audio is only available in … stayed and I liked Zurich. And I started procedures so my family could come over to join me. I tried but it didn't work. One of the reasons …
  • Deciphering Family Facts from Family Lore
    … Our family histories are the stories that we decide to repeat and share, editing out the parts … that were unclear or unseemly, and over generations those stories become our truths. But what if there was someone who could help decipher … Deciphering Family Facts from Family Lore …

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