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GEERT (GEORGE) AND GEESJE (GE) WESTERHUIS -LUNSHOF FAMILY April 2022 On February 23, 1951 Geert and Geesje Lunshof and their 6 children arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax Nova Scotia. They had left Beilen, their village in The Netherlands, and had stayed with Geesje's parents, our grandparents in Meppel …
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32 pairs of children’s shoes, cast in bronze, dot a 165 km trail in Ireland known as the National Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by twelve-year-old Daniel Tighe and 1,489 others, two-thirds of them children . Suffering from famine and in dispute with their English …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Dr. Zak El-Ramly came to Canada on a student visa in 1969 from Egypt. He landed in Ottawa, where he completed a master’s degree in combustion engineering and a PhD in aeronautical engineering at Carleton University. He later became a …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Dr. Zak El-Ramly came to Canada on a student visa in 1969 from Egypt. He landed in Ottawa, where he completed a master’s degree in combustion engineering and a PhD in aeronautical engineering at Carleton University. He later became a …
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Animated by Grace An Music by Sigmund Washington Daniel came from Peru at the age of ten. He was born without a right arm or a left leg. He started CREATIVE//SOCIAL. The organization uses data and online systems to manage customer service relations and business operations out of Calgary, Alberta. …
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Animated by Grace An Music by Sigmund Washington Daniel came from Peru at the age of ten. He was born without his one arm and right leg. He started CREATIVE//SOCIAL. The organization uses data and online systems to manage customer service relations and business operations out of Calgary, Alberta. …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Bänoo Zan is a self-exiled poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator with numerous published pieces and three books. Songs of Exile was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Letters to My Father was …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Bänoo Zan is a self-exiled poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator with numerous published pieces and three books. Songs of Exile was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Letters to My Father was …
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Animated by Greg Doble Music by Sigmund Washington Stephanie Bernard moved to Ontario from Jamaica in 2007. In 2013, she moved to Iqaluit and became the president of the Nunavut Black History Society, which runs Black History Month festivities and programming every February. In 2020, Stephanie …
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Animated by Greg Doble Music by Sigmund Washington Stephanie Bernard moved to Ontario from the United Kingdom by way of Jamaica in 2007. In 2013 she moved to Iqaluit and became the president of the Nunavut Black History Society, which runs Black History Month festivities and programming every …