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  • This is Home Now by Asha
    … my mom was not accepting of girls joining teams. My mom’s thought of coming to Canada was to leave the violence in Somalia for a safer place … time I wanted to show her my skills. To my surprise after the game she complimented on how well I did. This time she listened to my points. … agreed that I could play as long as it does not get in between my studies. My mom was able to witness me fulfill that promise during my …
  • “The New Canadian Curling Club” Sweeps Away Myths About Immigrants
    … 23 at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre, The New Canadian Curling Club is a comedy about four people brought together to learn the sport. It’s also … four face. Playwright Mark Crawford says even though the play is a comedy at heart, he wanted to get at “ a bigger conversation about who we are and how we welcome people or don't welcome people.” The play, originally commissioned …
  • Jeanne Beker unpacks her wardrobe… and her past
    … a displaced persons camp in Austria, they came to Canada. This trunk accompanied them on their voyage across the Atlantic after the Second …
  • Scotiabank Family History Centre
    … for someone arriving in Canada before 1865 are low, as there are no comprehensive lists. 1865 - 1935: Canada started keeping immigration … 1935) for all ports of entry. These do not include passenger lists. Commemorative Ship Photos: Available for purchase in person on the day …
  • Xianqin Yang
    … Xianqin Yang was born and raised in Shandong Province, China. After completing an undergraduate degree and master’s degree in microbiology, … not get a visa for the United States, she decided to continue her studies in Canada. She received a full scholarship from the University of … in June 2007, Xianqin accepted a position as a research scientist in Lacombe, Alberta. Return to Main Gallery …
  • Anthony Athanas
    … for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … Flora, Trinidad and Tobago. Santa Flora was a town owned by an oil company and Tony’s father worked as an x-ray technician at the oil company’s medical centre. After graduation, Tony also began working for …
  • How Did I Get Here in My Life? by Barbara
    … foreign language in Japan and for six months, I lived in Tokyo and studied Japanese. In high school, I studied Latin, French, German and Spanish. Even though I had high marks, I … I loved learning language. I heard the language all around me and was completely involved in Japanese life, so I learned quickly to get along …
  • Girl's Horizon by Moonja
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  • Life Begins at 20 by Noel
    … at Westinghouse where he worked in Hamilton. Given that my purpose in coming to Canada was to financially help my parents, I had thought it … on her seventeenth birthday. As we got to know each other, I became completely captivated. During all this time, I had been surprised to … that if Canada didn’t meet my expectations I should not be ashamed to come home. One day, when the many British emigrés at Westinghouse …
  • Bruce Eldon Myron Evans Ray
    … and Sicily, and the Netherlands and Germany. I was in Holland on V.E. Day after I spent three months in the hospital in Belgium because I had …

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