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… Time 0:03:43 Transcript May 2012 was when I heard the news. I had to wrap up my last 10 years in 10 … soccer ball from socks and newspapers. I remember that I had to save coins and beg the bigger boys in the camp to take me to the cinema to … College in Cairo. I obtained my bachelor degree, the first in my family to do so. Little did I know, a few years later I would live in the …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian officials attempted to commemorate immigration milestones. These … Eminently Suitable for Our Purposes: Official Commemoration of Immigrant Arrivals in Canada, 1949-1972 …
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… and find myself writing in the hopes that someone out there can help us with a question. Patricia wrote to me back in 2011 while … During our correspondence I mentioned that a visitor had let me scan what they called “a Middlemore shilling”. When Patricia learned this, she wrote, “All …
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… here at the museum is “what made you leave your home and decide to come to Canada?” Some respond that it is for new opportunities, to … My mother looked at me - she was in tears. “Do you know where Canada is? How long do you think it will take you to come back home?” I replied, “I know it is very far but I will come back to visit at least once year …
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… I'm still missing my home in China. I now can be called a CFA which is come from away. Spring Festival is coming. Chinese people usually get together with their families. When I was small, I would wait until a certain time to go to my … in a red envelope. I would argue with my grandmother to put more coins in the dumplings so that I will not be upset about not having the …
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… In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we … this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them when they come to Canada. These are the aspects of culture that people don’t pack …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated July 6, 2020) At that time…[there were]…no buses running, it was like a strike, all the transportation. So I remember…we were scared…we didn’t know what was going on, that it’s going to be…more like a coup—in those days I didn’t know what a coup was. We only …
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… became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be traced back to the early interwar period. … Contribution of the Other Ethnic Groups ) of the Bi-Bi Commission’s official report attempted to address this reality and the concerns of …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated July 13, 2020) Kosovar refugee children pose for a photograph in front of … to find workable resolutions to the plight of refugees and their families. [3] Permanent Resettlement or Temporary Status for Kosovar … Canadian Forces Logistics Association , 2019, https://www.cfla-alfc.org/stories/op-parasol/; Canadian Armed Forces and Kelsey Berg, …
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… 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced multiculturalism as an official government policy. Multiculturalism was intended to preserve … of the commission were adapted to become the government’s official policy of multiculturalism. In his speech to the House of Commons, Trudeau stated that no singular …