- Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Germany Ship Name: Anna Salén Port of Entry: Pier 21 Date of Arrival: November 16, 1951 Age on Arrival: 20 May it be known that I, Hans Escher, was born on Sept. 3, 1931 to Adolf Escher and Paula von der Stein, in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, the eldest of …
- Award-winning visual artist, graphic designer and filmmaker Aquil Virani was selected for the Museum’s first virtual residency. Inspired by the Museum’s "Contributions" playing in the Canadian Immigration Hall, Aquil invited participants across Canada to digitally submit stories of the immigrant …
- Becoming a Refugee Time 3:12 Transcript: Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ) : So Yugoslavia was falling apart and, and some, parts of it already declared as, as independent states, and, and I could hear guns closer and closer coming to my place. And, and you could feel this uneasiness all around us. And, and …
- Becoming a Refugee Time 3:23 Transcript (This video is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) Yes, that's it. Since we, we, we learned that, uhm, the—by ocean, directly from Vietnam, it's a lot more difficult, because it's uhm, it's the pirates, the, uhm, it's …
- Becoming a Refugee Time 1:39 Transcript Kathleen Sigurdson (KS): Because all the applications, even from those other countries—so if you were living in Qatar, you had to apply to Abu Dhabi because we didn’t have any offices there. And also when I was in Abu Dhabi, it was a time when it started, I …
- Becoming a Refugee Time 2:41 Transcript I was very young, and I wasn’t remember anything, because all I remember was my, my mom was grabbing my hands, and is told me to run. And he was grabbing me so hard, and he grabbed some of the belonging, and, we ran away. And then we were—because I was a—I …
- Becoming a Refugee Time 1:00 Transcript To me, like, because we are living such —I think we have—we don’t even understand what is hope, you know. What is, like, hoping to be somebody. Or hoping to become someone. Like, we don’t even have—and I was never think about hoping to become something, you …
- Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · Students for Change Time 1:51 Transcript (This audio is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) Yes. Actually, at first, I did? I was always, I was always in the—in my country, when I was a student I was in the? the? the pro-change …
- Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · My Father’s Music Time 0:03:48 Transcript Ilse Thompson (IT): And, um, we had a wonderful time. But then the day came when I met my girlfriend on the street. A girlfriend, my best friend, on the street, and she looked, didn't look at me, she didn't say hello. She was …
- Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:12 Transcript Hi, my name is Umeeda Switlo. When I left Uganda my name was Umeeda Umedaly. I brought this suitcase with me so that you could share with me this time, almost forty years ago, over forty years ago, that I left Uganda. And it says Umeeda Umedaly …