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  • Immigration Simulation - Online Version
    … role-playing experience that strives to detail immigration to Canada at the start of the 20th Century. Learners will build a … asked by the “Immigration Officer” to try to get into Canada, all while learning about Canada’s exclusionary policies. These policies … lives of real people, determining who was allowed into the country and how they were treated. It is worth noting that some learners taking …
  • Giuseppe e Caterina e Maura Martino
    … become a high school teacher. I hope that all my grandchildren have a good education. This is my wish... God Bless Them. My son, my wife and I left Naples aboard the Saturnia on the fifth of March. I had $888 of debts to pay to my father-in-law Nicola D'Agostino. He came … Giuseppe e Caterina e Maura Martino …
  • Teddy Bear’s Journey – Online Version
    … of Fenton the Teddy Bear as he tells his story of immigrating to Canada with his small owner, Hendrik. Young participants connect with … together. We will discover what it feels like as Hendrik and Bear go on the adventure of immigrating to Canada through Pier 21. This program is an adaptation of our popular …
  • To Canada and Back Again: Immigration from the United States on the Underground Railroad (1840-1860)
    … and returned to their owners. [1] This also meant that people who had escaped slavery by entering a free state years earlier could be … New Land, New Life In Canada West (formerly Upper Canada), black men had the right to own property and vote if they met property … daughter of a “station master” on the Underground Railroad, Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) was an abolitionist leader and spokesperson for …
  • Jean Allison Bock
    … Diary Entries Friday, April 26 I left Sheffield at 9 am and was met in London by the Canadian Army … nice and quite near Hyde Park. We slept in two tier bunks along with about two dozen other girls, including Margaret from Scotland. We three … was a Cinerama show in the lounge. On Saturday we were allowed to go out all day until 8:30. We went with Beatrice to her sister's at …
  • Who we remember and who is forgotten: An online lesson plan on historical significance
    … or celebrated. Many of these people are immigrants to Canada. This online lesson plan and activity will challenge students to think … Who we remember and who is forgotten: An online lesson plan on historical significance …
  • Tibetan Immigration to Canada
    … who was on a lecturing tour across Canada, soliciting funds in order to return to Tibet and continue his missionary work. In September … in search of assistance for the wounded guide. He was never heard from again. Susanna Rijnhart Carson failed to reach Lhasa due to a lack of … and no remaining money. [2] Immigration of Tibetans to Canada While Canadian interest in Tibet has grown since the late nineteenth …
  • Yolan Bencsik
    … As the army troops moved in the fighting escalated. Each night we had our clothes by our bed ready to flee if they were to bomb our part … as soon as possible. I did not understand what the whispering was about between my father and a young newly wed couple (Kocsis, Antal) that rented a cot in our kitchen. My sister Eva (Erdos) who was six years old and I, …
  • Francesco Geraldo Sabbadin
    … old. There are many stories to be told from this period in my life. We owe our life to two aunts on my father's side. They provided for us and … of the last 3 years of World War II, very hard times for us kids. We had no future, with the small farm and lack of jobs. At this point my … from English to Italian, for all us that day. There was from 30 to 40 guys from my hometown of Poggiana Di Riese as we travelled by …
  • Strategic Winter Port: A History of the Port of Saint John
    … sailed to the mouth of the Wolastoq River. As part of the Pierre Du Gua, Sieur de Monts expedition, Samuel de Champlain “discovered” the … In 1775, Portland Point, at the mouth of the St. John River, only had about 140 inhabitants. In the 1780s, some 15,000 Loyalists from the … and the rise of westward expansion across BNA increased railway links while passenger travel brought people and trade to the city’s port …

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