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  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    Prince Churchill is currently the artist-in-residence at the Museum. Courtesy of Prince Churchill.   Prince Churchill was born in poverty in Haiti before being put into an orphanage at age 6. Well, he thought he was six—but more on that later. Prince is currently the artist-in-residence at the …
  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    Prince Churchill is currently the artist-in-residence at the Museum. Courtesy of Prince Churchill.   Prince Churchill was born in poverty in Haiti before being put into an orphanage at age 6. Well, he thought he was six—but more on that later. Prince is currently the artist-in-residence at the …
  • Anton and Paula Rouss
    … Rotterdam on August 3rd at 17.00 hours. I wrote a diary of the nine days on this ship: Monday August 3rd. – After a long wait we finally … see any sun in the morning and in the afternoon it became foggy. I can still not get over the fact that I missed the family on shore in … to Toronto yet but we will get them in Halifax. What do I do all day? Sitting, walking, reading, standing, hanging around, being bored. …
  • David E. and Regina Hartman Family
    … name of a country from a bowl (three countries were chosen -- America, South America and Canada). Canada won out, 3 consecutive times! On the way over here they said that they were going to raise their children as real Canadians, … 1910 when they converted to the Baptist faith. Catherine (who had come from Austria) had asked for professional people to help populate …
  • From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of the Canadian Museum of Immigration
    … employment. Population growth accompanied this, with London, already a city of one million in 1800, home to 1.4 million as early as 1821. [1] … from 75,000 to 303,000, whilst Glasgow grew from a town of 13,000 to a city of 104,000. [2] By 1870, urban centres of over 10,000 had a … to have continued, even after the children boarded trains at the port city into which they had arrived. Jack Dove confirmed that ‘you didn’t …
  • Trace Your Roots at the Scotiabank Family History Centre
    … don’t think I have enough information” to “they arrived through Quebec City so you wouldn’t have anything for me here." However, while it … we are currently able to access. We have access to records for all Canadian and most United States ports of arrival, as well as some … If your ancestor came to Canada between 1865 and 1935, it is best to come prepared with a full name, birth year and approximate period of …
  • Immigration Regulations, Order-in-Council PC 1962-86, 1962
    … a new immigration act, this policy was introduced as a separate set of regulations. New regulations could be implemented quickly by the … Act, Immigration Regulations, Part I, Amended” RG2-A-1-a, volume 2269, PC 1962-86, 18 January 1962. “Immigration Act, Immigration Regulations, Part II, Amended” RG2-A-1-a, volume 2269, PC 1962-86, 1 February 1962 Valerie Knowles, Strangers at Our Gates: …
  • Immigration Regulations, Order-in-Council PC 1962-86, 1962
    … Immigration Regulations, Order-in-Council PC 1962-86, 1962 …
  • Immigration Regulations, Order-in Council PC 1967-1616, 1967
    … Immigration Regulations, Order-in Council PC 1967-1616, 1967 …
  • Staff Sgt Catherine K. Drinkwater
    … woman of 22 join the army, especially in the first years of World War II? I did! I'm not sure why; something different; adventure; a good solid job; smart uniforms or, because a long time friend of mine … jeeps (one of which I drove up and then down the steps at the Old City Hall in Toronto during a Victory Loan gathering of thousands of …

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