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… Chinese restaurants in small towns that Ann Hui discovered dishes like chop suey, or moo goo gai pan, or sweet and sour chicken balls. Hui had … Canadians. As Hui explains, most of the food served in what she calls “chop suey” Chinese restaurants originated in North America at the end … trip, a series of Globe and Mail articles, and ultimately, the book Chop Suey Nation. Ann Hui's cross-country road trip took her all the …
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… and Use Contact the Collections team at collections@pier21.ca for requests to use the collection. Provide as much information as … and Use Requests may take up to 1 month (20 business days) to complete. Urgent requests may be accommodated on a “rush service” … No additional fee Audio $22.00 - 1-10 minutes $25.00 - 11-30 minutes $26.00 - 31-90+ minutes Video $40.00 - 1-10 minutes $50.00 - 11-30 …
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… you. If you happened to be bright, handsome it didn't hurt either. The four young men who stepped off the Scythia on March 29, 1953 were all … their arrival and celebrate their half a century long friendship. Robert Hutchings and the Tinker brothers, David and Michael, came … was a young structural engineer that had been sponsored by Avro to come to Canada and work on the Avro Arrow project. When asked about …
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… my wife and I and our 11- mouth old daughter arrived in Quebec City, Canada. We decided to leave our homeland of the Netherlands for a … burial’ since it was thought that your family and friends will never see you again. Even though it was difficult, we decided to make the move for a better life.” (Simon Grin, 1948) “Although I was only four years old at the time, I can distinctly remember the kist seated …
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… permitted to transport one Chinese person for every fifty tons of the ship’s total weight. In comparison, ships transporting European immigrants were authorized to carry one … to Canada became prohibitive for most Chinese individuals. With cheap Chinese labour in short supply following 1903, some Canadian …
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… Pier 21 and the Robinson Family Perhaps the connections between us and Pier 21 … hundred of us were embarked at Greenock. Our transport was the French ship Louis Pasteur and the regulations aboard were very strict to … deck was not permitted. We left originally in convoy, but after about four days, the ship took off like a scalded cat, having passed through …
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… Stanley Vander Meulen was born Sape Vander Muelen on 26 January 1933 in Driesum, a rural village in Friesland, a province of the Netherlands on the North Sea. Sape was the second youngest of ten children born to Jacob and … The name is common in Holland because of the many windmills built for flood-control in that low-lying country. Such generic last names …
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… History, and I completed an experiential education placement with the Canadian Museum of Immigration in 2022. The placement was with CMI’s … me find connections among the 13 interviews. One way to do this was to see how often individual codes applied to the 13 interviews. The … (57), community (53), reasons for moving (28), settlement programs (26), religion (20), and general insights (5). I would like to highlight …
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… detailed accounts of who makes the best! I always cringe when Elders come to the restaurant and order it — they are my harshest critics. However, I’ve tweaked my formula over the years and have finally come up with what I think is … for working the dough 2 tbsp + 1½ tsp (37 mL) baking powder (0.9 oz / 26 g) 2 tbsp + 1½ tsp (37 mL) granulated sugar (1.2 oz / 35 g) ¼ tsp / …
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… withheld land grants, an influx of white immigration increased competition for the few jobs available, and the rocky, infertile land … government’s attempts to convert them to Christianity and use them as cheap labourers. Growing dissatisfaction with their experience in Nova … 1776-1815,” The Journal of Negro History 58, no.3 (July 1979): 258-261; Whitfield, “The Development of Black Refugee Identity,” 11. ↩ …