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… Time 0:03:29 Transcript I grew up in a small island in India called Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Our family had four girls, and we were always discouraged by close relatives and the community for only having girl children. My aunts would say, why does … Journey for Social Recognition by Sangeetha …
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… Time 0:03:49 Transcript Mom used to tell me the story where I was born. She told me I was born in Bhutan, which is a beautiful Himalayan country. I don’t remember living there, but I remember the day we … they taught me about the history of Bhutan. We learned about the changes to the citizenship act in 1985. The government banned going to …
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… never was a topic that I thought much about before beginning my placement at Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington. After all, I was born and raised in Canada. On … of the self-awareness exercises that our Social Work professors had us complete. I really didn’t see the point. It was not until my placement …
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… Christine Schlechta was a 10-year-old German immigrant at the time of what she recalled as a magical quarantine Christmas. “It was Christmas Eve, 1951, … Pier 21,” Christine remembered. “We were led into the large assembly hall lined with benches where we had to wait until our names were … The Magical Quarantine Christmas of 1951 …
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… the day I turned 10 years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early … after she arrived from Ireland, a beautiful tall shy girl with green eyes. On September 24, 1977 on the day of my 22nd birthday we were …
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… the day I turned 10 years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early … after she arrived from Ireland, a beautiful tall shy girl with green eyes. On September 24th 1977, on the day of my 22nd birthday, we were …
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… Hellenic Canadian Congress - National ΕΔΔΗΝΟΚΑΝΝΑΔΙΚΟ ΚΟΓΚΡΕΣΣΟ - ΕΘΝΙΚΟ In honour of all immigrants of Hellenic heritage who entered Canada at Pier 21 to start a better life … Hellenic Canadian Congress - National …
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… My mother and I left Ireland to join my father who had worked on the Great … in a rooming house in Toronto. I was 18 months old and my mother was ill for the entire crossing. She relied on kind passengers and crew to … asked to pay a disembarkation fee. When the official realized that was all the money she had, he waived the fee. We returned to Pier 21 for my …
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… Books/Articles Aberson, Jan L. From the Prairies With Hope . Canadian Plains … Regina, 1998. Bowen, Kurt. “Immigration and the Growth of the Dutch Community. The Postwar Wave and Its Predecessors.” (unpublished … Recommended Resources - Netherlands …
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… Families 1956 My family, mother, father, brother and I, arrived in Halifax in Feb. 16, 1957. We sailed on the MV Britannic … aware of the requirement that upon arrival we were to be taken to a "hall". To my Hungarian ears that notion sounded unusual. You see in Hungarian, "Hal" with one "L" means "fish", so I imagined that we were all to be …