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  • Why isn’t it called “Japantown”?
    … © Government of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of Library and Archives Canada (2023). Source: Library and … owned by Chinese and Japanese Canadians were smashed. Still, the community continued to deepen its roots, not only in Vancouver but … Why isn’t it called “Japantown”? …
  • Milan V. Gregor
    … are four small episodes tied together with the arrival at pier 21 on May 28, 1951. To work for a U.N. organization, a displaced person, i.e. … class officer" had to be a citizen of a western country, usually an American, a Canadian or a Brit. They all spoke English, some French. … a wife and child asked me in Germany, if I would bring to Canada under my name one of his trunks. I agreed. After we disembarked and entered …
  • Giuseppe e Caterina Martire
    … Giuseppe e Caterina Martire Famiglia My Father - Giuseppe Martire, arrived from Italy in April 1952. My Mother - Caterina Martire, arrived from Italy in November 1953, …
  • Carmina, Paolo e Giuseppe Colicchio
    … My mother Carmina, brother Joe and myself arrived in Halifax to join the rest of my brothers and sister in …
  • How Two Moroccan Newcomers Conquered Canadian Winter
    … Ghita and Saïd have the right gear and the right attitude about the cold. … there rarely go below 10°C. Saïd and Ghita had moved into an apartment and were doing the things people do when they begin life in a new … It began with an eight-minute walk through a park, along the Dartmouth Commons, to the bus terminal. Both Saïd and Ghita had seen snow before, …
  • How Two Moroccan Newcomers Conquered Canadian Winter
    … Ghita and Saïd have the right gear and the right attitude about the cold. … there rarely go below 10°C. Saïd and Ghita had moved into an apartment and were doing the things people do when they begin life in a new … It began with an eight-minute walk through a park, along the Dartmouth Commons, to the bus terminal. Both Saïd and Ghita had seen snow before, …
  • Harry Dye
    … My Father Harry Dye Sr. emigrated to Canada from Dundee, Scotland on the ship Newfoundland that arrived in Halifax on August 8th, 1927. My mother, Jesmina Dye (nee Manson), with myself, Harry Dye Jr., and … Edith and Mina followed later aboard the R.M.S. Albertic in Halifax on May 5th, 1929. They went on to settle in Summerside, Prince Edward …
  • Oreste Campeotto
    … Ship Name: Olympia Date of Arrival: May 4, 1957 I came to Canada to work. I arrived with my cousin Virginio Michelin. Virginio had one brother living in Canada. …
  • Colin and Hugh Campion
    … My brother Colin (age 7) and myself (age 5) together with my mother came to Canada and must have …
  • #HopeAndHealingCanada
    … December 2023 to December 2025 Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers has created an artistic intervention, currently on display … a conversation about decolonization and reconciliation.” Tracey-Mae Chambers’ intervention is on display in the Canadian Immigration …

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