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… of Immigration conducts recorded interviews across the country in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek …
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… brick is in memory of my parents, Bruno and Rosanna Bellissimo, to show how grateful I am 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 … we left the little town of Vallelonga, Italy in April 1953. My father had immigrated to Canada four years earlier to begin working in order …
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… I stood at the window today looking across a field of sweet corn. So many years have passed and so much has happened. It’s August, 1999, … is shining and the sky looks so huge. That was the first impression I had of Canada, May 25th, 1945. I was 6th of 10 children; my father was …
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… which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this year. The past significance has always been the reminder … old RCAF Air Gunner who lost his life over France on July 14th, 1944 while serving with 156 Squadron RAF Pathfinder Group. He is buried … the communal cemetery in the small French community of Ancerville. I had been waiting for some time to write this story and could never find …
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… which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this year. The past significance has always been the reminder … old RCAF Air Gunner who lost his life over France on July 14th, 1944 while serving with 156 Squadron RAF Pathfinder Group. He is buried … the communal cemetery in the small French community of Ancerville. I had been waiting for some time to write this story and could never find …
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… which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this year. The past significance has always been the reminder … old RCAF Air Gunner who lost his life over France on July 14th, 1944 while serving with 156 Squadron RAF Pathfinder Group. He is buried … the communal cemetery in the small French community of Ancerville. I had been waiting for some time to write this story and could never find …
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… tune that went like this: “C’erà una casetta piccolina in Canada, con tanti pesciolini et tanti fiori di lilà, e tutte le ragazze che passavano di là, dicevono che bella la casetta in Canada”. This is how I thought of our home, a beautiful, loving, little house surrounded … of father figure. As a result, he was exempted from military duty. While only a year younger, uncle Romeo, a talented musician, was not so …
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… exhibition sheds light on an interesting yet underexplored aspect of Canadian immigration history: food confiscation. Food can be a … what really happened when the immigration shed was still active? How did immigrants, interpreters and customs officials interact within … sure that all arrivals’ hand luggage was checked. After immigrants had their documents processed, they were sent downstairs to locate …
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… Like an Infant as an Immigrant Time 0:02:15 Transcript … so it’s very important and understand that again when you’re coming to this country you consider yourself as an infant you don’t … culture, ethics, and the attitude, and what it takes to land in a very good job or related field of your own choice. So, you would have to do …
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… lived in the small home, eventually 23 people in total. Each family had a single room to sleep in and there was a small barn for the … and one of his brothers owned and operated a small trucking company out of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They would send money back home; the … war but his brother had escaped and lived at large among the locals. While Romolo was imprisoned in Ethiopia, his youngest daughter was born …