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  • One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort
    … went to another cousin that we stayed with,” Vita explained. “They had one double bed, so there is my cousin and his wife, my little brother … things I recall, I guess because…there are certain freedoms that you can’t describe that…worries were taken off your shoulder.” And was Vita … One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort …
  • Discrimination Hurts by Surya
    … Iran, and Egypt. They were all agriculture students and so we could compare and contrast agriculture in our respective countries. We played … At my workplace, we have a map with pins for places where everyone has come from. They are from all over the world and we get along remarkably … But, I feel that racism and discrimination are still prevalent in our community, just like I experienced 35 years ago. To that end, I am …
  • Theodore and Maria Jacobs
    … his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the … with many other Dutch soldiers in February 1949 and set sail to Indonesia, where they where stationed until August 1950. Though he never …
  • Frits and Trijn Lopers
    … talked about emigration. We never went to them, yet we were the first ones in our families to decide to leave Holland. We first all had to go … Ontario, who needed help. His name was Charlie Davidson and he had a house for us. Two families from our village Koekange, (B. Flinkert and … two girls. Opa and Oma Lopers and Oma and Opa Steenbergen were able to come along on the bus to Rotterdam to send us off. When we got to the …
  • Entrenching Refugee Rights in Canada: The 1985 Singh Decision
    … refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination … Estey and Justice William McIntyre, based their ruling on Section 26 of the Charter and Section 2(e) of the Act for the Recognition and … Freedoms (commonly referred to as the Canadian Bill of Rights): 26. The guarantee in this Charter of certain rights and freedoms shall …
  • Private Ernest Paul Hanna
    … Ernest Paul Hanna was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia on January 25, 1920. At the start … and Adrian. Ernie's Family grew to include sixteen Grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Ernie was a member of the Reserve army, and … Ernie was a hockey enthusiast at various levels both on and off the ice. Besides hockey, he enjoyed other sports, including hunting and …
  • My Missing Home by Jia
    … I'm still missing my home in China. I now can be called a CFA which is come from away. Spring Festival is coming. Chinese people usually get together with their families. When I … in a red envelope. I would argue with my grandmother to put more coins in the dumplings so that I will not be upset about not having the …
  • Customs and Traditions: Holiday Edition!
    … In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we … this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them … had thousands of contributions (3227 to be exact) from our visitors. One thing the team and I have noticed when imputing the entries into …
  • “We Wanted to Come to Canada”: Pier 21 and the Arrival of Polish Orphans
    … and Soviet forces invaded Poland and split the country into two zones according to the terms of their agreement. Between September 1939 … forces – hostile to the Polish population and its culture – imprisoned some 500,000 Polish nationals and deported a further 500,000 … Many of the older children added that they had voluntarily chosen to come to Canada despite communist claims to the contrary. Image of USAT …

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