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… Photo courtesy of Saïd Allibou. “I can’t feel my hands!” Saïd was wearing gloves. His wife, Ghita, was not. It was February 4th, just nine … app. “It's more accurate compared to the others,” according to Saïd. Buy your winter clothing in Canada. Saïd and Ghita purchased winter … outfits in Morocco but “our clothes didn't match the winter here.” Buy mittens, not gloves. Saïd has learned that “mittens are more …
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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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… 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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Time 0:03:44 Transcript Last summer, I visited the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. I saw many immigrants’ suitcases and settlement stories - both positive and negative. I told my husband that it would be nice to donate my suitcase and my story. I left everything at home, like the …
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Time 0:02:28 Transcript I called Thailand refugee camp a home because I was born there. It wasn’t much, but it was a home. Before I was born my mom lived in Piobolu and my dad lived in Dawau. They met each other somehow in Piobolu, and came to Mae Ra Moe refugee camp, because Piobolu was burned. …
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… Wireless-operator, Air-gunner and won the medal for his part in helping bring home to England a damaged "Wimpy", a medium … spars. They managed to kick the flaming material through the open bomb bay doors and the Crosby administered first aid to the badly wounded … and gunnery school. He arrived in England in June 1941, and first went to an advanced wireless training unit and later to an operational …
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… Children January 22, 1952 - Zuiderkruis After a tearful good-bye to friends and neighbors in our little hometown of Ens in the … piled into a rented car which would bring us to Rotterdam. There we were to board the ship that would take us to our new country – …
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… Five of us, who were making the voyage, set out by foot and bicycle from Trevignano to … $20 as part of the fee we paid to cross the Atlantic Ocean. I knew to buy food for the 2-day train ride from Halifax to Niagara Falls, …
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Time 0:02:42 Transcript Where are you from? Sounds simple? But it’s not. It was 1992, a year that brought a war to the country that I called my own – Yugoslavia. It was an ethnic war of enormous proportions. I became a foreigner in my own city. I was 21. I grew up happy, surrounded by love and care …
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Time 0:02:19 Transcript The night before I left to travel the world for nine months, my oldest sister, Colleen gave me a small bundle of 36 numbered envelopes to keep me company. Inside were notes of encouragement and questions to inspire letters home. They were a welcome reminder of someone who …