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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Conte Biancamano Port of Entry: Halifax Date of … Michele had left Sicily for Canada two years earlier to pave the way for his family’s arrival. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the best … Wilfred Laurier University) from which he graduated with an Honours BA, followed by a MA in Environmental Planning at York University. In …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Germany Ship Name: Seven Seas , Europe-Canada-line, Bremerhaven to … the wagons, the plow and provided us milk at the end of the day. We lived outside the war zone and when food got scarce in 1945 my …
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… leaving many Italian labourers stranded in Canada with no money to buy return passage to Italy. During the winter months, the seasonal …
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… Stanley Vander Meulen was born Sape Vander Muelen on 26 January 1933 in Driesum, a rural village in Friesland, a province of the Netherlands … Sape took more formal instruction in drafting and design at a nearby technical school. World War II (1939-1945) spared northern Holland … cottages and a veterinary clinic along the eastern shores of Georgian Bay (Parry Sound). Stan’s early experience in the ‘new world’ offers a …
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… Single Men and Women July 9, 1953 – Waterman My five day journey from … earlier, this didn’t bother me. Upon landing in Halifax at Pier 21, we were sorted like cattle at a market and had to stand in long lines …
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Time 0:04:40 Transcript My hometown is a little town which is in Guangdong province, which is in southern part of China, where there is lots of people immigrated to Canada because the golden rush and railroad construction around nineteenth century. When I grew up, people around me started to …
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Time 0:03:09 Transcript Some people are born lucky but the account my fate was written with tears. I was born in a village of India in Uttar Pradesh. I lost my father when I was only two. My mother became a young widow and was always sad and unhappy. My childhood was a tale of tears. I was badly …
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… Life in Canada Time 4:29 Transcript: Madan Kumar Giri (MKG): We were sponsored by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. That’s what … other members of the church. When we stayed in the hotel in Quality Inn, everyday there used to be some members of the church—like, they …
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… Life in Canada Time 4:29 Transcript Madan Kumar Giri (MKG): We were … Canada—all financial help for food, for apartment rent, for buying new clothes for the first time, like jackets and these things, … to get anything. We didn’t have any difficulties. EB: What did you buy at the Superstore? Do you remember? MKG: Yes. We got, I think, …
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Time 0:05:05 Transcript In 1958, I left Hong Kong for London, England, to study a nursing program. The program is the best nursing program in the world. The British trained nurses had the best nursing skills in world. The nurse can work can work in most of the Commonwealth countries. Having …