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    … Current Opportunities The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is committed to procure goods and services based on best overall value. … of Canada (1990, c.3). Retrieved from the Department of Justice Canada website: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/M-13.4/index.html …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home and came to Canada. When I was 9 years old the war … I was standing in the yard with my father and others, paratroopers were jumping out of planes. Two planes were shot down before 8:00 a.m. …
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    … April 2024, all proactive disclosures for travel and hospitality expenses are available on the Government of Canada’s Proactive Disclosures website ( https://open.canada.ca/en/proactive-disclosure ). Annual … Travel, Hospitality and Conferences …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … Canadian immigration policy, they are treated as adult refugees. Accompanied by a lawyer, social worker, or trusted community member, … the Armenian Relief Fund in Canada, Sir Henry Pellatt, a Canadian soldier and financier, and the Governor-General, His Excellency, Lord … prior to their arrival to suggest that in the spirit of Christian idealism, “we propose to drop the Armenian names of these children when …
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  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … passengers were promptly landed, and another seven followed after a day, based on their having established domicile in Canada before. [1] …
  • The Ellen Colmer Robson Family
    … of coal in his pocket, while mother, four of my five siblings and I, were sitting around the fire waiting for the New Year to be rung in. Mother casually mentioned emigrating. She had spoken of this many … After, what seemed, a lengthy discussion, my mother decided to flip a coin. Heads - Australia, Tails - Canada. It came up "tails". Canada it …
  • Driving Canada: A Collaborative Oral History Project
    … PhD, Oral Historian “Reality is reality. It is more difficult than imagination…We’re adapting, whatever’s happening. We were okay, we’re still okay, … Driving Canada: A Collaborative Oral History Project …
  • Nicolangelo Romano
    … Nicolangelo Romano and Maria C. Romano We are Nicolangelo (Nick) Romano and Maria (Mary) C. Romano. I, Nick, … routes from the same small town to Canada. In 1953 after an eleven-day journey aboard the small Greek liner the Nea Hellas, I arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and became a …
  • Catherine MacKinnon Read
    … Catherine Read nee MacKinnon When France capitulated in June, 1940 the threat … giving an account of recent bombings and remarking, "now the Germans can swim across the English channel and invade Britain." In July, I heard about the C.O.R.B. for the first time. However, evacuation was never discussed in our family. In August, …

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