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  • Patricia Campbell Edwards
    … Alumni Type: War Bride Ship: Ile de France Date of Arrival: October, 1944 Immigration ID Travel ID (1) …
  • Antonio Paolo Cappuccitti
    … 3 Arrived in Canada as a 3 year old. Travelled with my mother Antonia di Poce Cappuccitti and my older sister Santina Tersigni, she was 9 at … Well it worked out for me. I grew up in Toronto as a stalwart Canadian, a Maple Leafs fan and a career Public Servant. I was able to …
  • Thy Anne Chu Quang
    … with the French Solidarity Priority Fund and the French Agency for Development. Return to Soft Landing Soft Landing is a project curated … environmentalism, science, and community activism. The project is funded by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 …
  • we would be freer (بنكون اكتر احرار)
    … taste and bright colour, the sumac plant is used as a medicine, spice, dye, and more. Weaving together the voices of two women – one from the …
  • Artist-in-Residence 2023 - shalan joudry
    … learn and work with Indigenous peoples on healing, into a narrative dance/movement and musical piece.  shalan’s vision for the evolution of … past the residency period but in the early spring of 2024 a large audience was thrilled by a special sneak-peek into the creative process … explained, “The new movement work, Dancing Kmɨtkinu, explores and embodies the words, images, and important messages of the poem, and …
  • Caranguejeira Pioneers
    … Six young men from a village in Portugal called Caranguejeira decided to embark to a distant and unknown land called Canada with the … except working on the fields for family survival. They were brave to come especially when they first arrived and could not understand anyone … they moved around to better jobs and gradually for a better life to a point that they decided that living in Canada was going to be their …
  • Louw Griet Netty Bob Karel
    … Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: April 11, 1956 Griet and Louw de Vries with Karel, Bob & Netty (Jeannette); Netty and Bob at the …
  • Private Gordon B. Allen
    … 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. In September 1941, Gordon boarded the Louis Pasteur at Pier 21 bound for Scotland. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean, they sailed up the River Clyde to Greenock where they debarked. They later traveled by train to south England where they were …
  • Maria Rosaria and Antonio
    … two years earlier and were living in Toronto. They sponsored me to come to Canada. I intended to work here for a while and then go back to … went from Naples to Lisbon, Portugal and then on to Halifax. At one point we hit very bad weather for days and the ship seemed to be flung … to join his father, so I had him look after my son and they would chum around the ship together, otherwise I would not let him leave our …
  • Luigi e Grazia Letizia Napolitano
    … became rougher. It was difficult sleeping at night, but during the day, Luigi and a newly found friend would go to the centre of the ship …

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