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  • A Place to Live by Faviola
    … my neighbours selling many things in the street to support their families, but their children had uncertain futures because of poverty. My … to be accepted. As an adult, I witnessed discrimination against black people, and Indian people. One time, I listened to the people … behind my back? My husband was working for a Canadian engineering company who offered him a job in Montreal. This was the kind of …
  • Jeanne Beker unpacks her wardrobe… and her past
    … Courtesy of Jeanne Beker. Many people in Canada and beyond know the name … 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 …
  • My Second Life by Kang
    … as a car mechanic in Korea. When I was 25, I started my own business in Seoul called Kang Motors. Four years later, I married my wife Hey Suk Cho and next year we had our first … rebuilding the car so much that I decided to change the focus of my company. My mechanics became certified for Ferraris, Porsches, …
  • Being Selected to Come to Canada - Madan Kumar Giri
    … Being Selected to Come to Canada - Madan Kumar Giri …
  • Ernesto Natale
    Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto Natale Ernesto …
  • LCpl William A. Fuller
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  • The Geoffrey Robinson Family
    … Pier 21 and the Robinson Family Perhaps the connections between us and Pier 21 … flying training overseas. There was no training available in England - all air space there was intimately connected with actual aerial … The Geoffrey Robinson Family …
  • Annelies Schaerer Munzker
    … Why and how I came to Canada I was born 1931 the second of five children into a very well off … rail lines and thousands of dislocated people with no place to go. Finally we landed in a hotel on top of the ‘Muttersberg’ in Vorarlberg … continue to share a room with 3 others at the residence for years to come I decided to emigrate. With a friend’s help and connections I …
  • It's a Small World by Carmela
    … with my role of young bride and mom in Carpinone, a small Italian village of the Molise Region. And then we decided to emigrate to Canada. … big change, yet I was not even at the airport when I began to feel homesick. Going through customs , was enough to make me realized how … new baby, but my troubles were definitely not over. My inability to communicate made it all so difficult, and I was feeling lonely even …
  • Conciliation and peaceful futures through art
    … shalan joudry (pictured onstage) is the author of the the poem Kmɨtkinu, … and NAT Chantel. Photo by Kevin MacCormack “We are not the only ones looking to heal.” Museum artist-in-residence shalan joudry is a … we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can …

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