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… asked for my mother's hand in marriage. He was a police officer in the city of Haarlem which was considered a respectable career. In his …
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… Seven beautifully crafted one-minute films about the impact newcomers had on Canada and the impact Canada had on them. From Jamaica , Stephanie builds connections between people of African descent and Northern Inuit communities. Described Video …
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… Seven beautifully crafted one-minute films about the impact newcomers had on Canada and the impact Canada had on them. From Jamaica , Stephanie builds connections between people of African descent and Northern Inuit communities. Described Video …
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… Life in Uganda - Community Involvement Time 0:01:48 Transcript My two sisters went to … some five schools under the municipal council, and helped a lot of people as well. Then, in ’71, I became the president of the council—the …
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… were still used for a number of years to buy food and other necessities. My sister and I wore hand-knitted dresses and my brothers wore … For us, who came from a very flat country, it was an unusual but welcome sight. I remember walking from the ship to a big hall where Dad … to sleep on it with the four of us but Mom and Dad needed the other to sit on. Despite the hard bed, we slept quite well and I woke up the …
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… small house and we all went in to buy some bread to eat and a jar of jam. I was thirsty and asked for a glass of water, but of course, they … all, it was a train just for immigrants. A man helped me to open the seat so that I could put my daughters to sleep. The ride was very … I could not see my husband because they would not allow him to come right into the train station. An attendant came to me and offered …
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… Joseph Carmela, Domenico, and I (Michelangelo) left the small rural town of Provvidenti in the Campobasso region of Italy. We were heading … family and limited resources, had no other option than to immigrate to Canada as countless thousands had done before him. Three years prior to our departure, he set out for Canada with his strong faith in God and a relentless drive …
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… small house and we all went in to buy some bread to eat and a jar of jam. I was thirsty and asked for a glass of water, but of course, they … all, it was a train just for immigrants. A man helped me to open the seat so that I could put my daughters to sleep. The ride was very … I could not see my husband because they would not allow him to come right into the train station. An attendant came to me and offered …
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… family and limited resources, had no other option than to immigrate to Canada as countless thousands had done before him. Three years prior to our departure, he set out for Canada with his strong faith in God and a relentless drive … that their father and grandparents took on this precious challenge to come to Canada to make a better life for themselves and their …
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… while searching for work in Ottawa. Although work was plentiful, the city was foreign and the language difficult to learn and it was not …