• Berthold Herman Seiler
    … unsold western grain constituted one of the severest problems of the day. Conditions worsened, including economic confusion and unemployment … June 1998, he travelled to Swift Current to celebrate Gene's 90th birthday. We are glad that we were able to find a place in Westview (a fine …
  • Quinto Odorizzi and Rita Leonardi
    … to visit family and also enjoy it when family and friends from Italy come to visit here in Canada. Their biggest passion is spending time … Everyone has made the trip back to Italy to visit relatives and become aquainted with their heritage. …
  • Bargenda Family
    … fortunate to find a job which meant that he would leave Berlin on Monday, return on Friday, repair the truck on Saturday, have a day off on Sunday and then start the same routine again. We …
  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Things: Holocaust Education Week
    … odds. Partially, it was his kindly and charismatic presence commanding their attention, but mainly it was his story itself, which … in a Nazi concentration camp in Estonia less than two years after composing the verse. Following the film, soprano Janice Jackson performed a selection from local composer Sandy Moore’s upcoming opera Escape to Freedom , which also …
  • Newcomer Uncovers Deep Roots in Canada.
    … I also had that grandmother who married a Canadian First World War soldier in England. He was killed in France in August 1918. She received … way it goes. The family properties were established, but the ancestors die or leave and slowly nature takes over. How did you start writing … It’s sometimes difficult—I’ve been verbally attacked for coming here from the United States. Some of the Canadian media’s …
  • The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885
    … (plus amendments: 1887, 1892, 1900, 1903) Following the recommendations published in the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration in 1885, the federal government … seeking entry into Canada, a significant increase from the $10 duty recommended by the commission. This became the first piece of Canadian …
  • Newcomer Uncovers Deep Roots in Canada.
    … I also had that grandmother who married a Canadian First World War soldier in England. He was killed in France in August 1918. She received … way it goes. The family properties were established, but the ancestors die or leave and slowly nature takes over. How did you start writing … It’s sometimes difficult—I’ve been verbally attacked for coming here from the United States. Some of the Canadian media’s …
  • Museum’s Podcasts Unearth Unforgettable Stories
    … Armenian genocide, detained upon arrival in Canada, who went on to become one of Canada’s first naturalized citizens and one of the world’s … and harmonies inspired by Mennonite choral music A Sri Lankan-Canadian composer melding classical music with sounds of the Middle East and … Rup has an amazing story. He’s a huge star in India and Pakistan and completely unknown here.’” Shifting Landscapes Learn how new Canadians …
  • Gertrude, Felix and Hanns Skoutajan
    … Welcomed and Welcoming As I awoke in my upper bunk I immediately noticed … the throb of the engine that had accompanied us for the past eight days had ceased. The North Atlantic is not very pacific in the early … baggage I was discovered by a reporter for a Halifax newspaper who had come to record the arrival of the first refugees from Hitler. I was one …
  • Party Dresses, New Friends and Other Advice for a Long Quarantine
    … Percy was having pretty, epic adventures in Timmons. “I thought I'd died and gone to heaven,” recalled Percy. “I was like the son Uncle … absolutely, wonderful to us and did everything they could to make us comfortable, entertained and happy. “On one occasion they took me to … I knew she couldn't hear me. It was exciting that Mother could communicate with us this way, especially since I was missing her so …