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I was born January 29, 1931 in Czechoslovakia. After the 1948 communist coup d'etat I escaped in 1949 to Germany where I worked as a bookkeeper for the International Refugee Organization (I.R.O) - a U.N. body. In 1951 I imigrated to Canada. There are four small episodes tied together with the …
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Muriel Caroline (Tobutt) Robbins was born December 4, 1920 at Hayes, Middlesex England. At age 21 she joined the Royal Signal Corps. She was sent to Leicestershire training centre and then on to Kingston-on-Thames, Sussex after completing tests to become a signal operator. From there she went to …
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Nancy Somerville was only a teenager when she met Wilfred Clouthier , a corporal in the 21st Division of the Governor General's Footguards of Canada, still himself a young man, in the fall of 1945. The Second World War was nearing completion and Wilfred's armoured division had been stationed in …
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LT. JOHN FORBES MONROE Royal Canadian Navy John Forbes Monroe (Forbes) was born in Ottawa, Ontario, January 29, 1921, the only child of Winifred Edna Forbes and Franklin Alexander Monroe. Residing at 100 Harmer Avenue, Ottawa, he graduated from Glebe Collegiate in 1939. An outstanding competitive …
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Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Greece Ship Name: Olympia Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: July 8, 1957 … Leonidas Angelopoulos …
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by Carrie-Ann Smith, Vice President, Audience Engagement The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is a story museum. We collect and share the personal narratives of immigrants to Canada. We catalogue, contextualize, and curate. We may turn up the volume, but the voices are authentic. Telling …
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How a vivid dream and a nearly forgotten history led to a new exhibition Chinese Head Tax Certificate issued to Lee Wing, 1916. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 collection, [R2021.48.6] Artist JJ Lee thought of herself as a second-generation Canadian, her parents having been born in China. …
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Life in Uganda - A Multifaceted Community Time 0:01:10 Transcript I speak English, Gujarati, Gujarati’s our mother tongue, and Hindi. I speak three languages. And I did know Swahili. But, coming here, not keeping in touch with Swahili, I’m not fluent with Swahili to be honest with you, but I can …