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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 …
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… from French) YM : Yes (laughs), yes. Every time—the biggest file to complete is the permanent residency. There’s a medical section too: you … they said I spoke French and English well enough, but I’d imagine for someone from... I don’t know, Latin America, etcetera, it’s different, … funny cause when you get your permanent residence paper, the agent officially declares: “You are now a permanent resident. You have the …
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… Abandoned well, Lawlor's Island, September 2011. Credit: Photo by Steven … Why all the love for the other islands, and no joy for this one? Well, Lawlor’s has a complex history. It was the quarantine facility … only six days. Despite these and other minor issues, the group fared well medically, and was soon approved to carry on to their new homes in …
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… March 16, 1947 Pier 21 - That's where I came home to in March 1947 I had married my husband, Bill in Aug. 1943. He was in the R.A.F. and had come to Canada to serve in the British Commonwealth Air Training … walking around the deck, and the ship creaked and to me it seemed to say "I'm old and tired." We were aboard her on one of her last voyages …
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… and one which neither of them liked to discuss. Dorothy already had family in Niagara Falls, Ontario and so the decision was made to immigrate to that city. Dorothy, although …