• Canadian Macedonian Historical Society • КАНАДСКО МАКЕДОНСКО ИСТОРИСКО ДРУШТВО
    … МАКЕДОНСКО ИСТОРИСКО ДРУШТВО Honouring Canadian citizens of Macedonian descent who came from the Aegean, Pirin, Vardar and Mala Prespa regions of Macedonia and made Canada their home from the late 1800s to the present. En honneur aux citoyens de descendance Macedonienne qui on fait du Canada leur foyer depuis la …
  • Recreating a homeland: Czechoslovak diplomats in Canada during the Second World War
    by Jan Raska, Ph.D., Historian In the 1920s, immigrants from Czechoslovakia came to Canada in search of industrial work and available land for agriculture. Czechoslovakia’s diplomats in Canada promoted loyalty to Prague’s policies in the hopes that Slovaks and Czechs would unite into a …
  • Humanitarian Gesture: Canada and the Tibetan Resettlement Program, 1971–5
    … Raska, PhD, Historian In 1966, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) lobbied Canadian officials to accept …
  • St. Fidelis Golden Age Club Toronto
    … Age Club Toronto To remember and honour our members who came to Canada from all regions of Italy and to recognize their contributions to … their culture, determination, sacrifice and hard work. Per ricordare e onorare tutti i nostri membri che provenienti da tutte le regioni d'Italia immigrarano in Canada e riconoscere il …
  • Domenico Ciolfitto
    … After thirteen days at sea, we finally arrived in Halifax, Canada; myself, my mother, my grandmother and my younger brother Tony. The day that we arrived was also my 13th birthday and to me 13 is always and remains my favourite number. It's been a …
  • Private Clarence Melville Wright
    I got married October 11th to Joan E. Wright who received notice to sail to Canada on the Queen Mary in June 1946. We met in Moncton and I introduced her to my family. We had to live with them until we found a place of our …
  • Bill Shaw, wife Kaye and Family
    … arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the Georgic on April 26, 1952 on Kevin's first birthday. We sailed from Southampton on April 19, 1952. Our Mum was quite sic for the first few days. On the fifth day we sailed through a terrible storm and the …
  • Maria and Frank D'Ambrosio
    … bread for the first time. We were on the train headed for our two day train ride to Toronto. When the server came around with his bread, … to celebrate 50 years of marriage, and I think of how far we have come since then and how we have provided our family with a better life. …
  • Hendrikus van Kesteren
    Hendrikus passed away from cancer on September 4, 2005 in his home city of Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. …
  • Seamus James, Elizabeth Tiny Doyle
    James & Elizabeth Doyle James & Elizabeth Doyle …