• My Mother and I: Our Journey
    Time: 15:47 Transcript I go by Charisma Grace, but my official name is Genieve Walker. My full name is Olena Stepanova. My name is Joelle Buchanan. My name is Kateryna Stepanova. Omaira Eva Ospino Cárdenas. Yuminary Bryson. I normally go by Yumi. I was born in U.S.S.R., so Soviet Union. I was born …
  • Salzburg with Aunt Olga and Uncle Joseph - Peter Duschinsky
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:50 Transcript Yeah, so, I left. I was with uh, my Aunt Olga and my Uncle Joseph in Austria. Austria was quite amazing. I’ve never seen, I have never seen anything like that. We lived uh, we went to Salzburg, which is a beautiful city in the Alps, just a …
  • Empress of Britain - Peter Duschinsky
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 6:33 Transcript But we used to walk around the the, the hills of Salzburg. We used to watch the skiers, it was really great. And then uh, we got the okay to go to Canada, very rapidly, because, and I hadn’t mentioned this before, the third sister Boezsi …
  • An Exotic and Far Away Place - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 2:31 Transcript Yella Zahirovich (YZ): We know about Montreal mostly because of the Olympics and, I didn’t know much. Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ): I did. I, I, geography was my, uh, good subject, and it’s—I knew what I need to know. But to me it was really exotic, …
  • Being Selected to Come to Canada - Madan Kumar Giri
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:48 Transcript They didn’t tell us the exact reason why our family was selected and how. I even didn’t ask how our family was selected. They simply called us in their office and said, Madan, your family is selected for the settlement, as a pilot project …
  • Arriving in Canada: Arepas in Mississauga - Monica Valencia
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:08 Transcript So, we took a plane from Miami to Detroit. And then at Detroit, we just waited for my dad’s cousin to pick us up, and then he drove us to Windsor. And then when we came to Windsor, we claimed refugee status but they uh didn’t deal with a lot of …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    Life in Canada Time 4:29 Transcript Madan Kumar Giri (MKG): We were sponsored by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. That’s what was written in the letter. So whatever the financial help that we were supposed to get, that was provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada—all financial help for …
  • Research with Newcomer Children - Monica Valencia
    Life in Canada Time 3:36 Transcript Monica Valencia: And then after that, I did my Master’s because when I was studying journalism—when you’re a journalist, you have to pick a, like, a beat you want to do—I don’t know, crime or you want to do politics. And for me, I was interested in doing …
  • Karen and Canadian - Bwe Doh Soe
    Life in Canada Time 1:45 Transcript Well, I, right now, I feel like I’m becoming more like a half of Canadian I guess, because I get, because I’ve been here long enough to adopt the culture now, so. But, maybe if you were asking those questions earlier, like two years or three, I would answer …
  • Kinship, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Canadian Immigration History
    by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 13, 2022) “I think a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen children, is good quality.” [1] This quote from Sir Clifford Sifton, the …