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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction Over the last several decades, Canada has become increasingly dependent on foreign workers to meet its … example is Anna Marcin (née Flat), a refugee who fled Yugoslavia in January 1946, for political reasons. She resided at the Reid DP camp in … Recruiting Domestic Workers and Live-In Caregivers in Canada …
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… June 22, 1912 - April 9, 1998 I was born in Sheffield, England and was the eldest of five boys. The First Great War started in August 1914 and … government sponsored schemes were offered for farm work in Canada. My father agreed to let my brother, Sidney, and me come to Canada with …
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… Time 0:03:04 Transcript My childhood was in Nairobi, Kenya where my first memories are of growing up with loving parents doting neighbors and children of my age. I lived in a flat with my parents and my brother. The big house … Missing My Mother As I Make My Home in Canada by Amarjit …
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… Time 0:25:18 Music plays while a camera pans over the Museum’s exhibit spaces. Words on … stands for. Tolerance, respect for other cultures. When I applied to come to this country, it was like a light inside of the darkness.My … Museum overlooks. Kjibuktuk is in Mi’kmaki, the unceded ancestral and contemporary home of the Mi’kmaq. As I record this, some weeks ahead of …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated July 13, 2020) Kosovar refugee …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated August 21, 2020) Forcible Displacement of Polish Nationals to Labour Camps in the Soviet Union In August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union concluded … France to Canada. Due to German occupation of the region, the scheme lay dormant until it was resurrected in 1947. Two years later, 1,123 …
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… My name is Lillian Alton and I am David & Regina Hartman's third … and the first one born in Canada! Mom was 4 1/2 months pregnant with me, when they left Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After sailing for 2 … I was born in Edmonton, Alberta exactly 4 months later on December 16th, 1928. Mom and Dad are now deceased but their reason for coming to …
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… Families October 28, 1953 – Groote Beer The immigration for me, siblings and parents started shortly after the Second World War … need a better future for our children". The people in Holland had just come through a war and were trying to rebuild, but there was no housing …
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… study fine art. At that time, the war in Korea made everyone poor, so my family said, why study art? There is no money. Still I knew it was … was very contemporary. We learned Korean and Western modern art. In my third year, my teacher Chang Woo Sung invited us to his Traditional Korean Art … Korean Art in Canada-My Life, My Art by Young Ju …
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… of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: August 24, 1951 Age on Arrival: 30 The following is a story written by Vincenzo and Rita’s daughter … of feeling, longing for their country, "Italia Mia" and longing for "la bella vita"? Maybe he was thinking about the trees in America, the … store in Kitchener, Forte's Grocery Store. For the next ten years, my parents would drive to this store, where they and other homesick …