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  • My Missing Home by Jia
    … Time 0:03:06 Transcript Even though I've been in St. John's for more than a year, 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 … 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 …
  • Customs and Traditions: Holiday Edition!
    … 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 …
  • From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of the Canadian Museum of Immigration
    … by Sorcha Clarke This is a guest post from Visiting Researcher Sorcha Clarke, a PhD candidate at Ulster University … it was mutually beneficial, with these children an in-demand source of cheap labour in Canada . Small family farms proliferated in rural … recalled that ‘I stood up, I was impulsive and always pushing ahead,’ [26] whilst Robert Clapham and his peers, ‘when we got the chance to go …
  • Historic Pier 21
    … Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Pier 21 was built as one of four adjoining waterfront sheds, the key transit areas of Halifax’s … system, hotel and rail station, rail car maintenance shed, the four waterfront sheds and an annex building for the government … to strongrooms and catering facilities. An official from Cunard Steamships declared that “Halifax will have the finest immigration …
  • The Barr/Britannia Colony, Part I
    … were viewed by many Canadians as the most desirable settlers, so these numbers were reassuring to them. [2] Many British people shared this feeling, as they wanted to see their colonies settled with British immigrants in order to keep them firmly within the Empire. Of course, there were still some …
  • Patricia Norlander and son Stanley
    … I met my "husband to be," Albin Carl Norlander outside the YMCA in Sheffield whilst he was on a visit to relatives of an army buddy. Trying for a maturity I didn't yet … England until he returned to Canada in January 1946 before our first son was born. By August of 1946 I had received word to report to a …
  • Alois Wilhelm Escher
    … An Exciting Adventure in a New Land This is the story of a stubborn, ambitious man who beat the odds. A man who had a dream, a man who could see a new life, happiness and a place of respect in the America he's … of Aloys (Anglicized as Alois) Wilhelm Escher, born March 13, 1906 #26 Kampstrasse, Gladbeck, Westfallen, Germany. That particular house …
  • “We Wanted to Come to Canada”: Pier 21 and the Arrival of Polish Orphans
    … 500,000 Polish nationals and deported a further 500,000 individuals in four waves of mass deportations from eastern Poland to labour camps in … Many of the older children added that they had voluntarily chosen to come to Canada despite communist claims to the contrary. Image of USAT … her parents had died in Siberia, she and her compatriots “…wanted to come to Canada, we do not want to go back to Poland.” [13] Meanwhile, a …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 1
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 22, 2020) Introduction Before the arrival of Europeans, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) … as Kaniatarowanenneh , meaning “big waterway”) and the area later encompassing Quebec City (known in Algonquin as Kébec , meaning “where … Five Leading National Ports,” Urban History Review 10.3 (1982): 26. A sizable amount of literature exists on the Port of Quebec, see …
  • Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972
    … 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. … but also pointed to the country’s Indigenous and Asian communities who she described as part of a Canadian “mosaic.” [1] In 1926, writer Kate …

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