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June 8 to November 18, 2012 Are you a part of a cultural landscape? The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 invited visitors to find out by exploring the temporary exhibition Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes . Visitors discovered the ways groups and individuals maintain and …
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British evacuee child, Keith Alan Freeman made the best of his wartime quarantine experience. His story starts with words that I hope children today will echo when they grow up and think about these challenging days. “It must have been tough for my mother and aunt but my memories are of having a …
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… Born 1918 in Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba died 1996. The fourth child to John Gillis Thompson and Gudrun Thordis Gudmundson. He was a Golden glove boxer in Manitoba and this was where he got his …
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… recognize all contributions made by Italian Canadians to their adopted land through their hard work, sacrifice and commitment. A riconoscenza ed in onore del contributo reso dagli Italo–Canadesi alla loro terra adottiva tramite il lavoro, la dedizione ed il sacrificio. …
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… many Maltese immigrants that disembarked at Pier 21, to start a new life and career in Canada. B’ġieh lil dawk l-immigrati Maltin kollha li nizlu fuq Pier 21, biex jibdew hajja u karriera godda fil-Kanada. …
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… brought me to Union Station in Toronto where I was met by my uncle Louie who was my aunt's husband and my sister's adoptive family who I …
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… of Macedonian descent who came from the Aegean, Pirin, Vardar and Mala Prespa regions of Macedonia and made Canada their home from the late 1800s to the present. En honneur aux citoyens de descendance Macedonienne qui on fait du Canada leur foyer depuis la fin des annees 1800 jusqu'au present provenant des regions Egee, …
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… because Cunard Lines staff was on strike. We were dropped off by Holland American in Halifax instead of going on to Montreal. I'll never forget that first view of Canada. Everything was so big - huge … It was overwhelming and frightening seeing it and then no one could say how long the train trip to Montreal would take. Two days later I …
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… This is the essence of the Museum’s upcoming exhibition, Migrating Landscapes . Visit us from May 30 to November 11, 2013 to experience … expressed through the built environment that surrounds us. Migrating Landscapes showcases a series of model ‘dwellings’ by young architects … skyscrapers to cabins—are nestled in an impressive, abstract wooden landscape made of 28,680 feet of lumber. The architectural models are …
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… they decided where the ship was going to go. This case contains actually artifacts from the Empress of Ireland that were recovered from the … tube, the helm, the telegraph that sent speed controls to the engine. All those items that were there that night where fatal decisions were … with the coal-carrying ship Storstad, and produced the deadly collision that cost over a thousand lives. So these actual objects that …