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… lost all our savings that took years to build up. But, we had our own company that we could sell and we had money to leave, lots of people … would. Lot of Icelanders were moving to Norway but we wanted something completely different, and that was Canada. I called my good friend … saying goodbye to our home country. Gimli was our new home and it was comforting to move to a place that they called New Iceland. The people …
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… guest. The next day, he came back and said to Thora: “You may as well come home with me.” She needed a place and he needed a wife. They were … still farms. The neighbours were all of Icelandic ancestry and the common language in our community was Icelandic. Afi Johann lived with us and refused to speak …
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Time 0:02:45 Transcript From its creation out of Lake Agassiz to today, Lake Winnipeg has long been generous to those who understood its opportunity. lt has been a supplier of food to my family and other peoples from lceland who settled along its shores. Lake Winnipeg also provided the spark that …
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… and thick coats, streets were piled up with snow like grey walls. Coming from Taiwan where we have six months of summer, I wondered how … had changed me then. Volunteering as a language tutor for an Indian newcomer family at the downtown public library, I clearly remembered how … that we were once a whole family. One night, my husband and my Skype communication came to a sudden stop and we could only text each other. …
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… Sometimes I go to visit – I tell people I am going home. But when I am coming back to Canada, I tell people I am going home. So where is home? …
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… limitations of my Japanese language skills more profoundly when my Dad died. It was difficult to talk about preparations for my Dad’s funeral, … my Dad was a Buddhist. Mum had a stroke in 2005, as a result of complications after some dental surgery. I kept thinking if only I had … He helped us through the grieving process. When both my parents died, I told them, but wasn’t able to fully express, how much I loved …
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… like everyone else. Growing up in a small knit cultural & religious community in Ontario, everyone knows what you’re up to ALL the time, so basically my whole community knew that I was learning to ride a bike, but no one … poetry and had the best sense of humor always making everyone laugh. Coming to Canada changed all of that…. Reality is many immigrants …
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… music festivals in his village. It gave him great joy when he had the chance to sing and dance at these events that would last into the wee … of the Church. It gave the strong moral values that he still has today. At the age of 16, his father passed away as a result of a blow to … rest of his life. He wanted to learn a trade. So at 19, he chose to become an auto mechanic and went to a garage as an apprentice. Later, …
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… Time 0:03:12 Transcript I never thought I would say “No” to come to Canada until the day I actually had to leave my country. As a kid I always wanted to come to a western country, where kids had their own bedrooms and where … because we had to flee. We hid in a truck which delivers food to soldiers in the borders and we started our journey. When we got to the …
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… they had done what was wanted. We were all thrilled one day when Wing Commander Whittle came to have his rocket tested - it was a forerunner …