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  • “The New Canadian Curling Club” Sweeps Away Myths About Immigrants
    Zaynna Khalife, Ardavan Taraporewala, Linette Doherty and Howard Dai in The New Canadian Curling Club . Photo by @stoometzphoto   For a lot of people, curling is a mystery . It doesn’t look very athletically demanding, and yet - as many Canadians have discovered while flipping through TV channels - …
  • Indigenous Glass Art Experience with Tribal Fusion Art
    … + HST per person Experience must be booked in advance. Workshops can accommodate up to 30 participants. Groups may also book additional … through a unique experience offered in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. This special package …
  • The David Gordon Pettifer Family
    … children: Jane (5), Anna (4) and Bob (3) took the train from Quebec City to Peterborough, Ontario to stay in a cottage in Bewdley on Rice …
  • Pasquale Ruscio
    … had to get him to Rome. Pat met his wife Annunziata (Nancy) in 1967 by chance while making a delivery to her family home in Genova, Italy. The … immigrated to Canada in 1967, landing in the small Northern Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie. Pat worked at Algoma Steel, before starting … industry. Like many hard working immigrants, retirement did not come easy to Pat. Although he officially retired at age 60, he laid his …
  • How Whales Helped Me Find a New Home by Jeannine
    … standing anymore. I had worked myself very hard and I was feeling aimless. I lost interest in things that would normally never fail to make … He loved drifting there until everybody leaned over the rails, only to come up just then and blow his fishy breath into everybody’s faces. One … How Whales Helped Me Find a New Home by Jeannine …
  • Self - Acceptance by Roisin
    … other hand, both my parents were immigrants, born and raised on opposite sides of the world, in two very different cultures. One thing that made me feel very different while growing up was my unique name. Roisin is a traditional Irish name … of the self-awareness exercises that our Social Work professors had us complete. I really didn’t see the point. It was not until my placement …
  • Refugee: a Hero or Zero? by Sharmarke
    … so many refugees. We stayed on the boat for weeks until they finally let us in. As a young boy living a refugee camp, we played soccer in … soccer ball from socks and newspapers. I remember that I had to save coins and beg the bigger boys in the camp to take me to the cinema to …
  • Aili Edit Kinnunen
    … 21, 1929 My grandmother, Ms. Aili Edit Kinnunen, at the age of 28 set sail for Canada. She arrived at the Port of Halifax in 1929 on the … with the Finnish Physical Culture. Ms. Laatunen nee Kinnunen settled in Montreal with her husband and only son, Gunnar Poju. Mrs. …
  • Do Everything in Love 1 Corinthians 16:14 by Fred
    … and I sang together with brothers and nephews. In Uganda, we were competing with many musicians, and because we were not from there, and … after us. Getting medication, finding the medical centres and being able to reach them for support, it was all not easy. My hope was gone. I … such as hospitals, homes, camps and communities of immigrants. I visited people who were left alone by their family to die at hospitals. …
  • John Squarok and Edna Squarok
    … group of Warbrides and their children. In May 1946, they bought a farm south of Minburn, Alberta where they lived until 1959. They had four …

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