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… donated it to us for this exhibit. This tent is a part of Refuge Canada to show what temporary settlement living is like for different … it’s like to live in close quarters with each other. How this might be your family’s living arrangements for maybe a couple weeks, one month, … you might settle in and know that you’ll be there for a couple years. You can also learn how you can make do with very little objects in your …
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… promising. He says that emigrating seemed to be the thing to do. The young people left for Canada, the United States, Australia, and Belgium. Filippo had a brother who emigrated four years before and he sponsored Filippo. He knew a little bit of …
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… selling Margarine to retail stores. On November 30, 1930 after a six-year courtship he married Rinske Van der Ploeg (1907) who lived on a farm in Lieve Vrouwen Parochie. During the depression years, Ruurd expanded his sales to include sweets and baked goods. The … soon found employment at Imperial Optical in Toronto and just three years after their arrival, the family bought a new bungalow in …
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… Fenton poses with a family during the Museum’s Canada Day celebrations. Visitors to Canada … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … Who is that giant bear? …
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… Fenton poses with a family during the Museum’s Canada Day celebrations. Visitors to Canada … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … Who is that giant bear? …
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… Introduction 2022 marks the 50-year anniversary of the arrival in Canada of the Ugandan Asians given … order dictated by then President of Uganda, Idi Amin. In this gallery, you will meet six people associated with this refugee movement. Five … administration and then worked for the municipal government for six years. Daxa then moved to Halifax to work in her father’s grocery …
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… form of communication within the steamships that brought immigrants to Canada were voice tubes, or voice pipes, as this example seen display … Using prop brass cones salvaged from an old tug and conduit pipes, you can experience for yourself the clarity of the voice tube as your …
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… different places and time periods. They both ended with a new life in Canada . And although they are not part of our exhibitions, they are … Museum’s programming. Here is a little bit about each story, and how you can learn more. Jaivet Ealom’s Escape from Manus Prison The story … of detainees. Having studied the behaviours of interpreters who would come to Manus to translate, he mixed in with them and managed to get …
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… different places and time periods. They both ended with a new life in Canada . And although they are not part of our exhibitions, they are … Museum’s programming. Here is a little bit about each story, and how you can learn more. Jaivet Ealom’s Escape from Manus Prison The story … of detainees. Having studied the behaviours of interpreters who would come to Manus to translate, he mixed in with them and managed to get …
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… oral collection of immigrant stories and histories. Share how you feel about Canadian Identity in our growing digital Belonging Quilt. Test your knowledge at the Citizenship Test Table. Do you know enough for the privilege of citizenship? Immerse yourself in …