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… brother they were all well established and they had no intention to come and start from scratch. But I told them my assessment is that it … there is less chance that I’ll move back to Pakistan. If you want to come to Canada, it’s good for your children, for you children’s future, … And found jobs here much easier, at that time. It wasn't that—the competition was not that high, and luckily found job in one place and …
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… so bad we could not get out of bed and we did not see each other for days. I remember one morning the stuart came and ordered all the woman … leaning on each other but at least we were together again. The next day all we saw was snow, cars only the roofs showing and houses and … an hour working in the field. Now that was very good pay in those days. Walter and his wife Ruth were very good to us and helped us …
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… Preservation is a way of keeping digital material alive so that they can be accessed long into the future, even as the technological tools … our catalogue to improve full-text searching ii . We have also been scanning some beautiful hand-written stories from the filing cabinets. … copy v , with a lower resolution JPEG as the access copy vi that you can view on the Image search page . This means we preserve the best …
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… Rudolf E. Braune On April 20th, 1951 at the age of 31, I boarded the S.S. Neptunia at Bremerhafen, Germany. I had left behind an ugly war, … a new country would offer me a new beginning. So, on that fateful day, I struck out on my own, leaving everything I knew behind: my … I played a lot of chess with a young woman who loved to play chess. She had brought along a chess game that had chess figures with pegs …
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… brother and his wife came to Canada in 1929 and they encouraged us to come as well. Two more of my father’s brothers also decided to … supplies for the travel across the Atlantic Ocean. The journey took 10 days. The seas were very rough for the first 9 days. My father said … there was a grade two student who spoke both German and English. She acted as my translator until I was able to understand and speak …
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… parts of Canada. My story is a little different. Not only did I come a different way, (by train) and from a different direction (from … Montreal so I went back onto the ship and arrived at Montreal the next day. My ultimate destination was Eastern Canada and therefore I already … of this big city, the first major North American city that I had a chance to visit. I stared with awe at the huge buildings, particularly …
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… and a lady in the top bunk and a man in the bottom bunk invited me to "Come in dear". I, of course, slammed the door shut and re-thought my … I seem to have an emotional response to red delicious apples to this day! Alix Martin nee Munro (daughter) The Munro family in Scarborough, …
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… and my brother, William (Willi) Albert Herb, emigrated to Canada from St. Ilgen, a small town just outside of Heidelberg, Germany, for a … across the Atlantic was rough, and my mother told us stories of how she would end up on the floor from her top bunk on the ship. Her … money to buy a house and a car, my father walked to and from work each day, a walk that took him a couple of hours each way, in the cold of …
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… that we have to use other ways, which tend to be less detailed and can lead us down the wrong path or to “dead ends.” However, not every … story is a good example of that. It all began when I came to work one day in May 2012 to discover this lovely email from a gentleman in … He had a daughter, whom he probably never met, Lily E Lewendon. She married Albert Richardson in Hendon, UK in 1942 and they had 2 …
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… Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Establishing historical significance” is the first skill of historical literacy put forward by the Historical Thinking Project ( www.historicalthinking.ca ). Significance is a challenging concept: one of the things that a historian has … Historical Thinking (2) : Establish Historical Significance …