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  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    … and Design and runs a studio called Art by Prince. A struggle to find food As a young child, before moving into the orphanage, he recalls, he … up." When he moved into the orphanage, he was thrilled to have regular food to eat. This experience marked him. "My favourite food by far is rice and beans and chicken," a meal he says he ate at …
  • Starting Points: Researching Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History
    … Germans, Greeks, Italians and Poles who erect their own community halls, parishes, businesses and banks maintain a high rate of …
  • Middlemore Shillings
    … and find myself writing in the hopes that someone out there can help us with a question. Patricia wrote to me back in 2011 while … During our correspondence I mentioned that a visitor had let me scan what they called “a Middlemore shilling”. When Patricia learned … visitor to follow up with a story about her father and made a quick scan of the shilling but I didn’t ever get her name or have her sign a …
  • My Missing Home by Jia
    … I'm still missing my home in China. I now can be called a CFA which is come from away. Spring Festival is coming. Chinese people usually get … in a red envelope. I would argue with my grandmother to put more coins in the dumplings so that I will not be upset about not having the … me a better life. And then I use my better life to support their future. My mom was sleepless for a couple of nights because of my …
  • Chilean Exiles, 1973 to Now
    … was very empty. All the streets were empty. And I remember was two soldiers in the top of a bridge I used to, but it never come into my mind … is growing.” José’s reflection shows a path forward; a hope for a future where awareness of the coup, and similar historical events, help … University of Chile, April 16, 2018, https://uchile.cl/noticias/142609/fallecio-alejandro-rojas-ex-presidente-de-la-fech ↩ Dora Ashton …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    … changed is the menu. “When we bought this place, they had very local food — salt cod, meatloaf, fish and chips, and cheeseburgers.” Although many of those traditional bar food staples remain, recently, they have also introduced a signature … (dumplings), and a couple of fusion curry dishes. Offering Nepalese food wasn’t obvious at first . Hari notes that in their early days, …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    … changed is the menu. “When we bought this place, they had very local food — salt cod, meatloaf, fish and chips, and cheeseburgers.” Although many of those traditional bar food staples remain, recently, they have also introduced a signature … (dumplings), and a couple of fusion curry dishes. Offering Nepalese food wasn’t obvious at first . Hari notes that in their early days, …
  • eat make share: a taste of immigration
    … May 10, 2025–January 18, 2026 Recipes eat make share Perfect Pairings Canada’s food is as diverse … shaped by over 400 years of immigration and relationships between newcomers and Indigenous Peoples. Food connects us to the past, to place, … histories behind popular Canadian dishes. Learn how individuals and communities express themselves through food and engage in diverse food …
  • Jan J. H. Schoo
    … Kagerplassen. From an early age he had to contribute to the family income. He worked as a luggage boy, (photo 2) this meant that he had to … were so many immigrants looking for work that finding work was not easy. Still, he managed to join a group of friends, including Joan and … that my mother had again been beaten up by her husband, because the food was not to his liking. My father then went to him and made it …
  • A Sympathetic Interest in the Plight of Refugees: World Refugee Year in Canada
    … United Kingdom to play a leading role in promoting it to its global allies. In light of the triumph of the UN International Geophysical …

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