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… Life in Uganda - A Multifaceted Community Time 0:01:10 Transcript I speak English, Gujarati, Gujarati’s … and Hindi. I speak three languages. And I did know Swahili. But, coming here, not keeping in touch with Swahili, I’m not fluent with … Ugandan citizens to stay there for the business and to grow for the community. And so, we were the last ones to come to Canada, and we …
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… and retain French-speaking immigrants” to Francophone minority Communities (FCMs) in Canada. [2] Almost half of the interviews in French, in the Museum’s oral history collection, are from people in these communities. One of the fundamental questions emerging from an initial … Language as a Pull Factor for Newcomers to Francophone Minority Communities …
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… ready to feel what it was like maybe to have been on the ship. You can experience their last view as they’re sailing away. And then, as you go through the exhibit you can feel what it would have been like to be on the ship and … And then as you leave, you will have met some characters and then you can see again whether, you know they’re fate after you’ve gone through …
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… form of communication within the steamships that brought immigrants to Canada were voice tubes, or voice pipes, as this example seen display … to avoid a collision with the approaching coal ship Storstad. We can only imagine some of the words that passed through them in those … Using prop brass cones salvaged from an old tug and conduit pipes, you can experience for yourself the clarity of the voice tube as your voice …
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… are precious in museums. It is in this moment that they realise that becoming a citizen is not easy. That would-be-citizens are expected to …
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… my Past - Giuseppe Martino, Toronto July 21, 2001 I came to came to Canada on March 16, 1954 with my wife, Fortunata Caterina Martino, born … his third year at university this September 2001. He too wants to become a high school teacher. I hope that all my grandchildren have a … We only talked about the things in our past back home, or our life in Canada. Maybe the police thought we were all Mafiosi (Mafia). Sometime …
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… donated it to us for this exhibit. This tent is a part of Refuge Canada to show what temporary settlement living is like for different … temporary settlement so they’ll get something like this tent. People can learn what it’s like to live in close quarters with each other. How … might settle in and know that you’ll be there for a couple years. You can also learn how you can make do with very little objects in your …
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… the rock and play tricks off the rock. Then we pack up our stuff to come to Canada. I was 4 or 5 years old. The thing I love about Canada …
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… seen: Warsaw, Poland and Versailles, France Last known destination: Canada The Scotiabank Family History Centre needs the public’s help … in 1947 when Irene’s family left the country and Maja’s family came to Canada. In May 2013 the Scotiabank Family History Centre received the … email from Irene’s daughter, Paula. If you have any information that can help reunite Irene and Maja please email Reference Services Manager …
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… people who loved you? How could you do this to your country? You're a communist. You're a traitor." So, I had all that in my head and yet I … awful. You know it was—even later on when I uh—Waterloo. I didn't become a Canadian citizen right away. That's maybe a better indication. …