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  • Meta Echt and Marianne Ferguson
    … are things of which I may not speak, There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a … to speak of, because they have been so horrible; but the memory cannot die, and yet, it makes me sad to think of them. And even in such a … and hatred, people have dreams of freedom and liberty, which, may come true to some of them but may not come to others. We had our dreams …
  • Peter Hessel
    … as we were leaving, the sun came out, but it rained the rest of the day. The ship was towed by the tugboat Sirius: four times around its … When it, too, faded into the darkening horizon, a blinking light on top of its old flak tower could be seen for a long time. Then it was … board. Today a drugstore and a snack bar will be opened where everyone can buy coke and liquor. But I intend to buy some lasting things. First …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada—all financial help for food, for apartment rent, for buying new clothes for the first time, … days, we simply, I still remember, for eighteen days we didn’t get a chance to cook our Nepalese food. That was the terrible part. That was only the terrible part that …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada—all financial help for food, for apartment rent, for buying new clothes for the first time, … for eighteen days we didn’t get a chance to cook our Nepalese food. That was the terrible part. That was only the terrible part that … were in a hotel, there was no oven, nothing else. We couldn’t cook our food. So, we simply depend upon the bread and the jam for eighteen …
  • Marcello Munaretto
    … It was a time when families and friends relied on each other to put food on the table or help with working the land. Hard work never seemed … operational bicycle. Such pride and joy as he pedalled his way for a day of fun and adventure with his friends. A wad of paper tightly … were more enticing than spending two years in mandatory military service. In 1962, Marcello arrived in Nova Scotia aboard the ship …
  • Canadian Immigration Facilities at Victoria, BC
    … Second, public health interests often overwhelmed - and sometimes completely displaced - the implementation of civil immigration policy. … Permanent Immigration Building The doctor/agents Milne and McAlpin embodied the strong interweaving of civil and medical authorities around … set the purchase of proposed land in motion in early November 1906. [26] The Department of Public Works set the allocation for immigration …
  • eat make share: a taste of immigration
    … Canada’s food is as diverse as its people. The way we eat is shaped by over 400 years of immigration. Food connects people to the past, to place, and to other people. eat …
  • He Just Wanted Better Veggies—Now Hundreds Are Growing Their Own
    … Raymond, with two members of the Rainbow Community Garden. Contributed by Raymond Ngarboui Raymond Ngarboui … You Are What You Grow In 2023, Raymond was a recipient of the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award. The UK’s poet laureate Alfred Austin, … I shall tell you what you are." Raymond Ngarboui calls himself a soldier for economic and community development ; the Rainbow Community …
  • He Just Wanted Better Veggies—Now Hundreds Are Growing Their Own
    … Raymond, with two members of the Rainbow Community Garden. Contributed by Raymond Ngarboui Raymond Ngarboui … You Are What You Grow In 2023, Raymond was a recipient of the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award. The UK’s poet laureate Alfred Austin, … I shall tell you what you are." Raymond Ngarboui calls himself a soldier for economic and community development ; the Rainbow Community …
  • Hillegonda Bolding MacDonald
    … in Beilen, in the northeastern province of Drenthe, Holland, which today is referred to as The Netherlands. My parents, Roelof Bolding and … the capital city of Drenthe. I was a proud Dutch war bride who came to Canada through Pier 21, Halifax, on July 22, 1946, after a five-day … As we lived on a farm, we were fortunate enough to have access to food and other necessities. However, it quickly became short in supply …

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