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… On February 28, 1928 the Holland America line steam ship Nieuw … Rotterdam, Netherlands and was the first ship to arrive at Pier 21 on March 8, 1928. There were only 54 people disembarking at Pier 21 on that day and included passengers from Holland, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, …
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… denied us Canadian residency. We hired a lawyer to appeal, and he recommended that we move to Toronto. In Toronto, we had to start from … again. The Ministry made a video about our story, which is on their website. Whenever possible, my husband and I give talks about … process. Now we begin a new adventure. My husband has his own company building beautiful houses, my son is in his first year of …
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… Pier 21 was an active Canadian ocean immigration facility. Nearly one million individuals including immigrants, refugees, war brides, and … This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier … voyage.” Eventually, the Poggi family arrived at Pier 21 on Christmas Day in 1956. [3] In its final year of operation as an ocean immigration …
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… JoAnn Bell. English War Bride, Aquitania, April 10, 1947 I was one of three children, one sister and one brother. I grew up in Penge, … and air raid sirens went every night. Penge was bombed more than any other area in England. I remember when the sirens went off, we all … other, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes. I left England on Friday, April 3, 1947 aboard the S.S. Cunard Aquitania. We arrived in …
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… and retain French-speaking immigrants” to Francophone minority Communities (FCMs) in Canada. [2] Almost half of the interviews in … Ben moved to Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, to pursue his university studies; Saïda initially went to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she … into his choices. In this first clip, available elsewhere on our website , he describes how his parents financed his university studies …
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… Today, I would like to briefly highlight the immigration history of one particular Asian Canadian community: the Tibetans. Early Canadian … to Tibet's capital, Lhasa. Bandits attacked their caravan, wounding one guide and stealing several horses. With a subsequent desertion by … The UNHCR hoped that Ottawa could resettle these refugees since many of them were agriculturalists. The international organization also …
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… select, integrate, and retain French-speaking immigrants” to Francophone minority Communities (FCMs) in Canada. [2] Almost half of the … oral history collection, are from people in these communities. One of the fundamental questions emerging from an initial exploration … to settle in a community where their official language is a minority one. [3] The selected interviews that were explored were with people …
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… in the language.” And you know when you read the web sites for communities it is a marketing piece (laughs). So it was sold to me a … differently (laughs). And I liked the cosmopolitan feel from the website of Winnipeg and that you had people from all over the world, … something about Portage, no Main—the intersection at Main and Portage competing with Russia as the coldest spot in the world, and I thought, …
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… By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian For over a century, Canadian immigration authorities have used language proficiency as a … legislation on agriculture or immigration “is not repugnant to any Act of the Parliament of Canada,” provincial and federal regulation … not over admissions but over exclusions. Well before the passage of any literacy requirement by the federal government, the use of language …