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… Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter. Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
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… and medical team that quickly opened an office in Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, in September of 1972, to process the applications of … is unique . Umeeda Switlo and Lella Umedaly Lella Umedaly was born in South Africa but moved to Uganda at 17, following her marriage. Lella …
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… Mirja S. Bishop. Tyyne Johanna Saarinen was only 27 years old when she set sail for the new world. She had $25 in her pocket. She had a small … she could not know if she would ever return to her homeland again. She said goodbye to her father and her 3 brothers. Her mother, sister, and … to the 1920's, arrivals were handled at Pier 2 in the north end of the city, but Pier 2 was largely destroyed in the Explosion of 1917 and new …
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… people who experience war, violence or trauma – are also agents who can exert control in situations defined mostly by control being taken … about Czeslaw Tomaszewski’s wartime experiences and his decision to come to Canada; the courage of Lynda Dyck, also during the Second World War; …
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… of Order-in-Council P.C. 1967-1616. Commonly referred to as the points system , this regulation removed all ethnoracial and geographic … admission were recognized: independent immigrant selected through the points system, family reunification, and refugees. What about some of …
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… of natural light and is fully accessible. Other Details: Exclusive on-site catering is provided by our partner, RCR Hospitality Group. 80 … a projector, screen and sound equipment. Other Details: Exclusive on-site catering is provided by our partner, RCR Hospitality Group. Drop …
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… at that time and my son, John, was born in September, 1944. The next day, Joyce gave birth to a daughter, Gillian. Joyce and I visited one … I was to present myself and my two children with a maximum of 40 pounds of baggage to a Military Policeman at Waterloo Station on … women and children, including Joyce and Jill, also got aboard and we set off through a thick fog - a real London pea-souper - led by a man …
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… by the time you get anywhere near they say ‘Oh no, it’s closed now. Come tomorrow.’ So people were really, really completely … quick to assist in resettling a further 2,000 Ugandan Asians who had become stateless during the 90-day eviction period, many of whom thought …
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… for safekeeping. Travelling by peasant’s carts, by trucks and by commandeered barge through the war-torn countryside of Poland, the … staff elected to remove the treasures to France. Szczerbiec, the medieval Polish coronation sword. Credit: Consulate of the Republic of … and Stanislaw Zaleski throughout this odyssey, and, as Gordon Swager points out in his study, The Strange Odyssey of Poland’s National …
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… Can I search for an immigration record on the Museum’s website? No, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 does not have immigration records on the website. The Scotiabank Family History Centre staff use a variety of …