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… was very rough and I was seasick for the remainder of the voyage. I recall that the ship's crew placed ropes along the hallways so that passengers had something to hold on to while attempting … I was very fortunate to have met Vanda and to have built a life for all of us in Canada. I am the smallest boy on the left, holding my …
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… a disciple of Ken Saro Wiwa, a leader of the people of Ogoni. While alive, he spoke about the environmental degradation resulting from the oil exploration by Shell for several years in Ogoniland. He established the movement for the … the refugee camp in Benin, I registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. In the camp, we were living in abject poverty. …
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… My husband Cpl. James Reid Paton arrived two days ahead of me on the Ile de France, a troop ship. I sailed from Liverpool. The day after I … to be an escort for a little boy named Johnie, age 3. He was coming to Canada to be with his father who was a Canadian soldier in the European … we got closer to inhabited areas, little towns etc., the locals would come and wave to us. Sometimes the train would stop and some of the …
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… Canada: Catalogue No. 11-008, Autumn 2000. Di Cocco, Caroline, et al. One by One: History of the Italian Community in Sarnia – Lambton, …
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… but Filippo booked the passage himself. He didn’t pack much – just a small suitcase. He left March 9, 1956 and arrived on the 16th. It was … that they had put a cover from the ship to the building and that’s all he saw. Once they gathered their suitcases, Filippo says they were … on the train he could see snow, little houses, little trucks and more snow, more woods, more land. In Italy there is a town or village …
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… range of views about what to do about the war. So, we were affiliated also with uh protests, union affiliation, civil rights for black … across. I didn't want to do that. We were—we all considered ourselves uh Marxist-Humanists. That was the term. I'm sure very few of us … I did. I liked Marx and I liked Hegel. But I wasn't a member of the Communist Party. And most of the people, I know—I remember, there were …
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… Refuge Canada Tent raises awareness of the complex issues surrounding the history of refugees in Canada. Drawing … PDF . Contact Julie Martin, Assistant Curator, Temporary and Travelling Exhibitions jmartin@pier21.ca 902-425-7770 ext. 278 Schedule All … Primary Language Mississippi Textile Museum Almonte, ON November 2026 – January 2027 French-first Vaughan Public Libraries Vaughan, ON …
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… at Pier 21 collection, [R2021.48.6] Artist JJ Lee thought of herself as a second-generation Canadian, her parents having been born in … in her childhood home set in motion a series of discoveries that revealed her family’s history in this country goes back a lot farther than … And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, …
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… at Pier 21 collection, [R2021.48.6] Artist JJ Lee thought of herself as a second-generation Canadian, her parents having been born in … in her childhood home set in motion a series of discoveries that revealed her family’s history in this country goes back a lot farther than … And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, …
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… 20 I am honoured to have my name displayed at the Pier 21 Sobey Wall of Honour sponsored by my three Canadian born children Ursula, … and how and why I am here. I was born towards the end of 1938 in a small village in southern Germany. My parents operated a small farm with … training. They advertised in the local newspapers overseas and set up more embassies to process interested applicants. And lots of us came in …