• Here & Now by Kate
    … streets were piled up with snow like grey walls. Coming from Taiwan where we have six months of summer, I wondered how could we survive such … though I hardly knew anyone of them. I knew it was extremely cold out there, but while in the library, I was wrapped by whole hearted warmth … time to sleep; quite often I woke up in the midnight and wondered where I was. It was difficult to remember that we were once a whole …
  • Immigration from the US - Biographies
    … Bruce Campbell Bolin was born in 1946 in Detroit Michigan. He grew up in Dearborn Michigan with his mother, father and older … firms. He later returned to the United States for a job in New York City, working for 9 years at various positions in the financial sector … Immigration from the US - Biographies …
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  • Elio D'Alessio
    … Chieti Scalo to Selva Del Montello, Italy and finally Canada. My father Elio was born on November 26th 1926 in Chieti Scalo in the region of Abruzzo which is in central … provide a better future for my mother and I. So on March 7th 1956 he set sail from Venice on the ship ‘Vulcania', and that is where his …
  • John and Anisia Lysack and Family
    … second youngest child), so didn’t remember much about the trip, but she remembered the stories that her parents and older siblings told. Her parents made the difficult …
  • Archimede, Dina and John
    … World War II had finally ended and horizons of hope beckoned beyond the mountains and coastlines of Italy. Having been sponsored by Uncle … to begin establishing himself in this new land. On June 14, 1950, 26 year old Dina and 22 months old Giovanino (John) disembarked at Pier … another ship. My mother remembers the cold, North Atlantic weather. She recalls port officials in Halifax as kind and caring people. They …
  • Canada’s Oppressed Minority Policy and the Resettlement of Ugandan Asians, 1972-1973
    … Historian (Updated October 16, 2020) Introduction In January 1971, the Ugandan government of President Milton Obote was overthrown in a … line up for five hours and then by the time you get anywhere near they say ‘Oh no, it’s closed now. Come tomorrow.’ So people were really, really completely … Canada’s Oppressed Minority Policy and the Resettlement of Ugandan Asians, 1972-1973 …