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  • Kinship, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Canadian Immigration History
    … delivered the “sheep-skin coat” quote in 1922, by which time he had become rather more aligned with Conservative politics, and with it, he is … marriage and child birth seems to have had some success, with studies indicating millions of traceable modern descendants, representing … encourage a movement which would involve the separation of a family.” [26] This feigned protection of family integrity is not credible coming …
  • Rosina, Domenico, Giovanna
    … For some time I have wanted to document the story of our arrival in Canada. I believe it is important for our children to have a starting … were living with my paternal grandparents as was customary in those days. Our family farmed the land and as one can imagine the years … with my mother’s uncle, Olindo Castaldi, who came to Canada through Ellis Island on May 12,1909. Uncle Olindo was my maternal grandmother’s …
  • H.F. Leuteritz
    … Immigrants) found on the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 website. Herman Leuteritz (1920-2008) Account of Immigration to Canada … the international boarder (one had to wait TWO years for that). Next day, a Monday, I reported to Mr. Cannon at the immigration office. He referred me to Pastor Storm who took us into the Parish house where we found room with mattresses to sleep on. He took care to …
  • eat make share: a taste of immigration
    … Canada’s food is as diverse as its people. The way we eat is shaped by over 400 years of immigration. Food connects people to the past, to place, and to other people. eat …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada—all financial help for food, for apartment rent, for buying new clothes for the first time, … days, we simply, I still remember, for eighteen days we didn’t get a chance to cook our Nepalese food. That was the terrible part. That was only the terrible part that …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada—all financial help for food, for apartment rent, for buying new clothes for the first time, … for eighteen days we didn’t get a chance to cook our Nepalese food. That was the terrible part. That was only the terrible part that … were in a hotel, there was no oven, nothing else. We couldn’t cook our food. So, we simply depend upon the bread and the jam for eighteen …
  • First Families of Pier 21
    … 8, 1928. There were only 54 people disembarking at Pier 21 on that day and included passengers from Holland, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, …
  • Nomaqhawe Sibanda
    … in the language.” And you know when you read the web sites for communities it is a marketing piece (laughs). So it was sold to me a … differently (laughs). And I liked the cosmopolitan feel from the website of Winnipeg and that you had people from all over the world, … something about Portage, no Main—the intersection at Main and Portage competing with Russia as the coldest spot in the world, and I thought, …
  • Joyce Emily Callow Sherwood
    … as a conductor on the buses during the war. I was introduced to my Canadian husband-to-be (William James Sherwood R.C.A. C100060) by my … other, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes. I left England on Friday, April 3, 1947 aboard the S.S. Cunard Aquitania. We arrived in … about that today! After Bill picked me up, we stayed at his brother's house for a couple of days, then we went to his mother's and met his …
  • Tarcisio Filippelli
    … us during this initial part of our journey and stayed throughout the day until we familiarized ourselves with the Porto. That evening after … particular stop, in the darkness of the night, my father and I briefly de- boarded before carrying on our way. On January 30th, 1960, it was a … who took us into their home so that we had a place to live. They had come to Canada before us and settled in the northern Ontario. Luckily …

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