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Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Margaret Adu, Honorary Consul Ghana and former president of the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Calgary arrived in Alberta in 1993. Margaret is an award winning architect. She’s the founder and managing director of Aomega Group Inc.—a group of local …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Bänoo Zan is a self-exiled poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator with numerous published pieces and three books. Songs of Exile was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Letters to My Father was …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Bänoo Zan is a self-exiled poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator with numerous published pieces and three books. Songs of Exile was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Letters to My Father was …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 9, 2020) In May 2015, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 opened new … history of immigration to Canada. This blog is based on research that informs new displays regarding the history of immigration to Canada. Introduction As part of the … Who Is Admissible? Immigrant Desirability and Immigration Acts since Confederation …
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Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Leo Johnson spent eight years in refugee camps after fleeing war-torn Liberia in 1998. He arrived in Canada in 2006. Leo was a semi-finalist in CBC’s Next Great Prime Minister Competition. He’s also received the YMCA Peace Medal and the World …
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Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Leo Johnson spent eight years in refugee camps after fleeing war-torn Liberia in 1998. He arrived in Canada in 2006. Leo was a semi-finalist in CBC’s Next Great Prime Minister Competition. He’s also received the YMCA Peace Medal and the World …
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… that they left their homeland to bring their family to Canada so that we could have a better life. This is my story: Together with my mother … to begin working in order to save money to pay for our trip and to buy a house. It took us four hours, by car, to get to the city of … never forget the look on my mother's face when she had to say good-bye to her mother because she knew deep in her heart that she would …
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… This was the very first stew I cooked for my family after returning home from culinary school. I wanted to show off a new dish I had … Gold Award in the Regional and Cultural Cookbooks category. Excerpted from My Thali: A Simple Indian Kitchen by Joe Thottungal with Anne … by Christian Lalonde. Copyright © 2023 by Thali Restaurant. Excerpted with permission from Figure 1 Publishing. All rights reserved. No …
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… THIS IS MY STORY (by Antonietta Gallelli) It was July 21, 1955 when the ship Volcanic … excitement I felt at the prospect of venturing to a new land, all the way on the other side of the ocean, and my desire for adventure, (I was … After docking in several Mediterranean ports to pick up passengers, we arrived in Lisbon, the last European city before crossing the …
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Time 0:01:59 Transcript I remember when I was in Thailand, I was walking back home from school. My mom told me that our family was going to move to Canada. At first I thought she was joking. My parents wanted to leave the camp because they wanted us to be out of the danger zone. They didn’t want us …