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… the United Nations, specifically the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Relief and Works … Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), and the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM), in collaboration with various … unite efforts in addressing a significant issue for the international community, namely the refugee crisis involving Europe’s postwar …
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… two years earlier and were living in Toronto. They sponsored me to come to Canada. I intended to work here for a while and then go back to … here. She and the children arrived in November 1961. They would have come sooner, but my mother, who lived with us in Italy could not decide … to join his father, so I had him look after my son and they would chum around the ship together, otherwise I would not let him leave our …
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… and want to tell you the story of our journey. Most of my recollection comes from my mother. It's fascinating to listen to her stories. On … it was only a few short years after the war and work was scarce and Canada needed workers. That afernoon we boarded the train in … and we seemed to be going backwards more than forward. Those many days seemed like weeks. Our normal arrival time had been delayed. Then …
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… his life. He cut a handsome figure with his thick wavy black hair, riding the streets of Modugno on his Vespa. One of our favourite photos … features his signature signoff - “A te un ricordo, e a me, la felecita di essera ricordato.” For you a memory, for me the happiness of being … his life in Italy, leaving his family and friends in February 1963 to come to Canada to seek a better life for his family. Not knowing the …
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… became rougher. It was difficult sleeping at night, but during the day, Luigi and a newly found friend would go to the centre of the ship …
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… Exhibition is the Museum’s summer 2014 exhibit, brought to us by the Canadian War Museum. It is a glowing success, attracting about 6,000 … people have contributed so far, and the number continues to grow every day. The folks at the Canadian War Museum really knew what they were doing when they designed …
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… about working in the Scotiabank Family History Centre (SHFC) at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is that every interaction is … But as diverse as our genealogy research can be, one thing that comes up constantly is the regret that people didn’t ask their family members about their lives and stories when they had the chance. Too often we take our loved ones for granted, or forget that …
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… states scattered across European camps, in 1951, the international community ratified the United Nations Convention relating to the Status … [6] Somali Refugee Movement, 1989-1995 Unlike the previous two case studies, the arrival of Somali refugees was not the result of a … Policy, 1540-2006 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007), 215; Francis Peddie, Young, Well-Educated and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and …
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… of the state in formulating immigration policy and its influence on newcomers. Lacking a theoretical or conceptual framework on which to base their studies, scholars in the United States began by viewing immigration as a … Collection.” http://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb_r000-eng.htm (1867-1967) Websites Connecting Canadians: Canada’s Multicultural Newspapers …
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… in Halifax but then the sun came through and it became a beautiful day. The sea was flat as we watched the tugboats manoever our liner …