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  • Countless Journeys Podcast
    …   Hear the Human Side of Immigration Listen now → Season 6: What is Canadian Food? Indo-Guyanese cooking - … - Kris Alvarez and Grace Firmeza, and Nadège Nourian Rainbow Community Garden - Raymond Ngarboui Jollof Wars - Christiana Adewale … Vij Chop Suey Nation - Ann Hui Season 3: Immigrant Artists Escape to Freedom - Luben Boykov & Elena Popova Do You See What I See? – Visual …
  • The Pier 21 Story
    … like to immigrate to Canada through Pier 21. From the ship you sailed on, to customs and immigration in Halifax, to the train you took to your final destination, discover the past housed in the walls of our National Historic …
  • Sapper Tony Anton E. Vermeulen
    … My father, Frank Vermeulen, worked as a veterinarian and farmer in Holland. He lost his livestock two years in succession due to Foot and Mouth Disease. He … until the baby was three months old. Four months later, my mother Anna, myself, 4 years old, and my baby sister Marie, immigrated to … Sapper Tony Anton E. Vermeulen …
  • My Heroes by Liliana
    … what was happening was very unclear, I was only 8. All I knew, I was coming to Canada and My father had told me he had a teddy Bear for me … were a family of 5 living in a bachelor apartment. With very little money our family outings became blocks and blocks of walking, snow up to … Secord chocolate bars to keep us going. Those were the days I now cherish the most, walking, talking and playing in the snow with no worries …
  • COVID-19: Staying Safe
    … As we re-open to the public, we ask you to work with us to keep the … under 2 are exempt, as well as children 2 to 4 when their caregiver can't get them to wear a mask. People with a valid medical reason for … feel unwell, have symptoms or have been in contact with someone who has symptoms of COVID-19. novascotia.ca/coronavirus/when-to-seek-help …
  • Maria Gouveia
    … Transcript I loved the airport—it might sound silly, to you. But coming from an island, a very small airport, when you see something that's that big, … an important part in the founding of the Gallery of the Portuguese Pioneers in Toronto in 2003. Return to Main Gallery …
  • Olesya Aleksandrova
    Yogurt Day and Gathering Furniture Time 0:01:42 Transcript OA: Oh we didn’t have anything, it was an empty apartment. No spoons no plates, nothing. So we bought first our thing was in Walmart we bought spoons and plates, plates, and the only thing that I could recognize was yogurt (laughs), you …
  • Women at Risk Refugee Program - Kathleen Sigurdson
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 1:39 Transcript Kathleen Sigurdson (KS): Because … started, I started, obviously with headquarters approval, a women at risk refugee program, so very small, talking maybe fifty people a year. … that live in the camp and have been living there for years. They come over by boat from Somalia, it’s quite treacherous actually. And …
  • Ellen Margaret Dunham LaRocque
    … These are photos of Ellen Margaret Dunham, a war bride who served with the British Air Force, and George John LaRocque, who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force …

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