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  • 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 …
  • Behind the Story by Kathy
    … Time 0:03:34 Transcript Growing up, my parents would always bring me along to the restaurant. I remember sitting at the back table and drawing pictures or … about growing up with papaya trees in the backyard and catching frogs late at night. And driving in the car, they told me about being in bed … Behind the Story by Kathy …
  • An Incomplete Portrait of Canada
    … medical and immigration interviews and board trains to destinations all over Canada. This picture of European immigrants welcomed into … through official policy. (Dutch immigrants in the new Assembly Hall at the Canadian Railways Terminal, Halifax, NS. c 1930.) Credit: … portraits of some of the 20 th century’s most significant figures. A smaller temporary exhibition, SS Maasdam , which opens later this month, …
  • An Incomplete Portrait of Canada
    … medical and immigration interviews and board trains to destinations all over Canada. This picture of European immigrants welcomed into … through official policy. (Dutch immigrants in the new Assembly Hall at the Canadian Railways Terminal, Halifax, NS. c 1930.) Credit: … portraits of some of the 20 th century’s most significant figures. A smaller temporary exhibition, SS Maasdam , which opens later this month, …
  • A Lesson In-Dependence by Alwin
    … is surrounded by 5 volcanos which are visible in the horizon in many places around the country. My mom tells me it was much too dangerous to … get a job, her brother picked her up and drove to Detroit to apply to come to Canada. I admire the quality of independence in my mother. I … A Lesson In-Dependence by Alwin …
  • Peeled to the Core by Roya
    … been one- and my grandparents even worse because they converted from Islam to Baha’i faith. I left the court that afternoon and packed a small … those peels. First peel of my ego came off when at united nation high commission for refugees I was recognized as stateless. You see, I took pride in being a … Peeled to the Core by Roya …
  • A Scarlet Fever Quarantine and the Subsequent Adventures of a Spirited Little Girl
    … Christina McKay Liness Murchison didn’t let a little scarlet fever get her down. Her family’s home was quarantined due to her illness in the … I remember…the time my second brother arrived…I had scarlet fever. I can remember a crib in the kitchen and my brother was in it…our whole … the neighbourhood. “We had one little house down the street that had a hedge all around it, and we thought that was a haunted house…we used to …
  • Andolfatto Severino
    … April 22, 1957 I landed in Halifax on April 22, 1957 at 9:15 in the morning. I remember it was Easter Monday; we were all there on deck watching the boat "Olympia" being docked by hand; … of itinerary I traced on the Canadian map, all kinds of recollections come back to my mind. The seven days at sea on the Olympia were …
  • Lucia Olivo D'Angelo
    … Our mother, Lucia Olivo, left her home in Villaorba, Udine, Italy on July 18, … where she would marry our father Alceo D’Angelo. Our father had come to Canada previously in 1955. Travelling with my mother were two … making this such a memorable day. Joe and Robert D'Angelo Immigration Hall 1 : Santina Romano, Alceo D'Angelo and Marcella Pico Marcella Pico …
  • Grace Penner
    … and then I could go home and do my homework. And there were times that I was doing homework until like three o’clock in the morning. … 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 …

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