• LACW Elsie F. Mills
    … to be at a dance, but I was! Ed (Jack Mills) was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in … down we put more around the top. In 1949, pay in the army was really poor and good homes hard to find. Polio was a constant summer-time …
  • From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of the Canadian Museum of Immigration
    … employment. Population growth accompanied this, with London, already a city of one million in 1800, home to 1.4 million as early as 1821. [1] … from 75,000 to 303,000, whilst Glasgow grew from a town of 13,000 to a city of 104,000. [2] By 1870, urban centres of over 10,000 had a … living conditions were severely wanting. Sanitation was extremely poor, facilitating regular outbreaks of diseases like cholera. When the …
  • 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees
    … Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
  • Starting Points: Researching Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History
    … get your research underway. Early Scholarship: Immigration as a ‘Problem’? In the early part of the twentieth century, scholars in Canada … of the state in formulating immigration policy and its influence on newcomers. Lacking a theoretical or conceptual framework on which to base … http://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb_r000-eng.htm (1867-1967) Websites Connecting Canadians: Canada’s Multicultural Newspapers …
  • Two Ways to Dig into the History of the Black Battalion (1916-1920)
    … Credit: Courtesy of Esther Clark Wright Archives at Acadia University … and exclusion. The British War Office did not want to train Black combat units in case they decided to rise up against British colonial … were rejected, some being told it was a white man’s war. Black leaders across the country pushed for the right to enlist. The chief of …
  • V. Spatafora and L. Gruppuso Families
    … V. Spatafora and L. Gruppuso Families …
  • Flying Officer Gordon L. Coutts
    … Flying Officer Gordon L. Coutts …
  • Charles L. and Marion E. Boydell
    … Charles L. and Marion E. Boydell …
  • Sergeant Major Norman L. Cavan
    … Sergeant Major Norman L. Cavan …
  • Bombardier William L. Hap Day
    … Bombardier William L. Hap Day …