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  • Di Scala
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  • Wanda Mackowiak
    … Wanda Mackowiak …
  • De Petrillo
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  • Wanda Zielinska
    … Wanda Zielinska …
  • Kinship, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Canadian Immigration History
    … coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen children, is good … Canadian officials to broaden immigration for the sake of settling the West, but it is absolutely not about enlarging the idea of desirable … also severe cuts in spending as Superintendent of Indian Affairs, as well as the signature of Treaty 8. Sifton’s preoccupation with …
  • Emilia De Francesco
    … In 1958, my mother Emilia (nee Greco), who had not been past a 20km radius of where she was born, … to be reunited with my father (Ernesto) who had arrived a year earlier in Toronto. Not speaking other than a dialect and barely literate, she … the lives of many others who still hold her in high regard. Emilia De Francesco’s passport photo Taken shortly before Emilia left Italy …
  • Lega Istriana of Chatham and Southwestern, Ontario
    … a new life, thank-you Canada. Istria...a forza lasciata, ferita aperta nei nostri cuori. Per l'offerta di una nuova vita, grazie Canada July 18, 2009 …
  • Movement of War Brides and Their Children through Pier 21
    … to Canada of bona fide agriculturalists who had sufficient means to commence farming in Canada. However, immigration remained prohibitive … refugee crisis, it focused its attention on the resettlement of soldiers’ dependents. The resettlement of war brides and their children … Appeal Decisions: Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Taylor [2007 FCA 349],” Federal Court of Appeal , …
  • Salvatore Di Falco
    … My grandfather Salvatore Di Falco was born in Sicily in 1931. His family was a poor family (they … was born in 1957. For my grandmother, life in Canada was very difficult because of the different language, the different climate but … was pregnant with her second child my grandparents decided to come back to Italy. So my father was born in Castelfiorentino on the …

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