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  • Digital Preservation in the Collection
    … Preservation is a way of keeping digital material alive so that they can be accessed long into the future, even as the technological tools … our catalogue to improve full-text searching ii . We have also been scanning some beautiful hand-written stories from the filing cabinets. … copy v , with a lower resolution JPEG as the access copy vi that you can view on the Image search page . This means we preserve the best …
  • Theresa McGee
    … Anne, Mary, Shamus and Gertrude. She married John Gray, a Canadian soldier, in October, 1945, in Fivemiletown. She left for Canada in July, … she met up with her husband, John. They started their life in a small community, Huntingford, in Oxford County. Over the next few years, they …
  • Aamir Mirza
    … brother they were all well established and they had no intention to come and start from scratch. But I told them my assessment is that it … there is less chance that I’ll move back to Pakistan. If you want to come to Canada, it’s good for your children, for you children’s future, … And found jobs here much easier, at that time. It wasn't that—the competition was not that high, and luckily found job in one place and …
  • Erika Hertel Danner
    … Halifax, Nova Scotia Date of Arrival: March 31, 1960 Age on Arrival: 26 Erika Hertel was born Sept 23, 1934, the oldest of four siblings. …
  • Need a community? Join a rugby club.
    … arrived from Buenos Aires to Quebec City speaking no French . He’d come to do a Masters Degree at the Université Laval. It was 1988. “I … the world! The Rugby World Cup runs August 22-September 27, 2025. Newcomers who join a club instantly find themselves with a large group of … says Fabiola. Even at the sport’s highest level of performance, community and camaraderie are core values. “For me, it’s such a …
  • Yolan Bencsik
    … itself was not unpleasant. I remember the green grass: it was a sunny day, and it all seemed very easy. The Red Cross was there to aid us as … to plan for the future, freedom to dream. He was 34, mother was 26. We liked Neikirchen Austria a lot with its mountains and pretty … was like a heavenly perfume and oh! Those Austrian chocolates and I can’t forget the strange brown drink they called ‘coca cola’ that I …
  • Giovanni Guglietti
    … was if my father could go first because you needed a relationship to come to Canada. You have to have a related person. My father, we found …
  • Berthold Herman Seiler
    … unsold western grain constituted one of the severest problems of the day. Conditions worsened, including economic confusion and unemployment … June 1998, he travelled to Swift Current to celebrate Gene's 90th birthday. We are glad that we were able to find a place in Westview (a fine …
  • Bargenda Family
    … fortunate to find a job which meant that he would leave Berlin on Monday, return on Friday, repair the truck on Saturday, have a day off on Sunday and then start the same routine again. We …
  • Quinto Odorizzi and Rita Leonardi
    … to visit family and also enjoy it when family and friends from Italy come to visit here in Canada. Their biggest passion is spending time … Everyone has made the trip back to Italy to visit relatives and become aquainted with their heritage. …

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