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  • Refuge Canada - The Ink Blotter
    … by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:02:24 Transcript: One of the most compelling artifacts in our … it possible for God’s sake for you to arrange citizenship for me and my husband. We’ll do anything. We’ll work on a farm. We’ll pay for our … Refuge Canada - The Ink Blotter …
  • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    … his son Brian visited the Museum early on a Saturday morning. I told my husband that I would meet them at 9:30 a.m., show them around the … Of Peter’s many wonderful stories about his early years in Canada, my favourite was this little tale which reinforces the value of doing …
  • Grace Penner
    … plus understand, and look for the words in Spanish, so I could translate it into English. Or English into Spanish, and then write your … be approved for a green card in the United States, they applied to come to Canada as refugees. The family qualified for refugee status due … to El Salvador. Through the sponsorship of the Mennonite Central Committee and a Mennonite church in Winkler, Manitoba, the family was …
  • Jeanne Beker unpacks her wardrobe… and her past
    … stories of her life. In one chapter she talks about an unpretentious plaid Roots shirt she wore to interview her musical idol, Paul … a displaced persons camp in Austria, they came to Canada. This trunk accompanied them on their voyage across the Atlantic after the Second World War. It conveyed the treasured remaining items of an old …
  • “The New Canadian Curling Club” Sweeps Away Myths About Immigrants
    … “The New Canadian Curling Club” Sweeps Away Myths About Immigrants …
  • Dick Irene Leslie Fiona Cairney
    … I will never forget leaving Glasgow, Scotland on March 12th 1957, with my husband Dick, our two year old son Leslie, and our one year old … very good friends. We sailed from Liverpool the next morning on March 13th. The ship was called the Carinthia it was her 13th crossing of the …
  • “The New Canadian Curling Club” Sweeps Away Myths About Immigrants
    … “The New Canadian Curling Club” Sweeps Away Myths About Immigrants …
  • Jeanne Beker unpacks her wardrobe… and her past
    … stories of her life. In one chapter she talks about an unpretentious plaid Roots shirt she wore to interview her musical idol, Paul … a displaced persons camp in Austria, they came to Canada. This trunk accompanied them on their voyage across the Atlantic after the Second World War. It conveyed the treasured remaining items of an old …
  • A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary
    … A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary …
  • A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary
    … A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary …

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