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… At the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, we collect and tell the stories of immigrants who came to Canada and continue to come to Canada to make a new home for themselves. Some of these stories are used in the permanent exhibitions, online and in current and future travelling exhibits. Most recently, we …
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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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… of Immigration conducts recorded interviews across the country in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek …
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… in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 … the « Heimat ». I was fascinated by it all, the air was full of sound, names were shouted to and from the boat, cries, so many tears, … old, some engines conked out and I arrived on a very sunny day : April 30 1965 in Quebec City instead. Life in Montreal was exciting – Expo 67 …