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… doll here tells a story about two major groups of refugees who came to Canada. This doll is on loan from Dr. Tran-Davies, a medical doctor in Alberta. She came to Canada as a five-year-old girl in 1979 as part of the large group of … thousand Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese refugees were resettled in Canada. This was a major commitment to Canada to resettle refugees and …
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… Time 0:02:19 Transcript Integrating into Canadian society has always been important to my family. For as long as I can … was continuing to grow back home in Kampala, Uganda. Shortly after completing their education and returning home, they gathered their … life in a new country they knew nothing about. The open immigration offered by the Canadian government was like a warm welcoming mother’s …
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… just six months ago… To get the worked visa in Chile it was not so hard. There I had documents, papers, experience and language that … page that needed to be re-written, to be filled… I had to find people willing to collaborate in that process of re-writing, willing to trust … a place where to live or give you a job. My life in Chile was safe, comfortable. It was an academic life. I worked in a publishing house, …
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… is underneath the ink blotter is a secret message for help. We’ve had it translated from the German and it essentially reads, “Dear. Dr. Herzer would it possible for God’s sake for you to arrange citizenship for me and my husband. We’ll do anything. We’ll work on a farm. We’ll pay for our own …
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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:12 Transcript Hi, my name is Umeeda Switlo. … Uganda my name was Umeeda Umedaly. I brought this suitcase with me so that you could share with me this time, almost forty years ago, over … Canada. This is it. This is where my whole life was in 1972. And I also found with me this identification certificate from Uganda. And it …
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… Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · Students for Change Time 1:51 Transcript … expensive. And I was not always able to pay? pay, because I had no income, no resources and all that. I later incorporated politics into it. …
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… Nancy Somerville was only a teenager when she met Wilfred Clouthier , a … World War was nearing completion and Wilfred's armoured division had been stationed in various places across England to escape detection by the German air force. They met by chance in High Wycombe and quickly fell in love. Not long after, on …
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… contribution not only to Halifax but to all of Canada. This is something that was so dear to Herman's heart. Every year on Remembrance … make a pilgrimage to the Pier. He would gaze over the waters that had brought him and say a prayer of Thanksgiving and gratitude for his life in freedom and …
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… In the summer of 1956, while working at her parent’s bar in the town of Fagagna in the … change the course of her life. That man was Mario Chiarvesio . He had immigrated to Canada in 1951 and returned to his hometown to visit … to Canada because her birthday is on July 1st – Canada Day. As well, her dad, Luigi Zuttioni, was an Italian soldier during the Second …