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  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … 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 …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … 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, …
  • Vice-Admiral Douglas S. Boyle
    … British Columbia. His middle name, prophetic as it turned out to be, was his mother’s family name. Susan Ann Dorothy and Allan Douglas Boyle, his parents, had immigrated to … for an officer’s training preparatory school, HMS Conwa, based in the bay off north Wales and Liverpool. In 1939, despite the Great …
  • Katrina Ewanishan Yurko
    … "Kay: A Story 85 Years in the Making" I always wondered what would be the one word to best … to put it mildly, but the only one that really fit was "unique." Everything about her personality, cooking and even her golf game was her … Some new additions were added in the process. First, a sister Anne was born in 1930, but she had unfortunately died of an infection …
  • My Mother and I: Our Journey
    … name is Joelle Buchanan. My name is Kateryna Stepanova. Omaira Eva Ospino Cárdenas. Yuminary Bryson. I normally go by Yumi. I was born in U.S.S.R., so Soviet … have to have a special instrument to do that. And I couldn't afford buying them. And if something would happen to instrument—if it's always …
  • Annelies Schaerer Munzker
    … came to Canada I was born 1931 the second of five children into a very well off family in Vienna / Austria. After a care free wonderful … having a home since I was 13 years old it was not too hard to say good bye to my parents at the railway station. I stopped over in Switzerland …
  • Maria Rosaria and Antonio
    … and her husband had immigrated to Canada two years earlier and were living in Toronto. They sponsored me to come to Canada. I intended … speak any Italian, but they were very helpful and somehow they were always able to point me in the right direction. On the way to Toronto, we …
  • Jan J. H. Schoo
    … age he had to contribute to the family income. He worked as a luggage boy, (photo 2) this meant that he had to transport the suitcases of … he became 2nd several times in the 100 and 200 m running. It was always the same boy who came in 1st and my father always 2nd behind him. …
  • Giovanni Guglietti
    Time 0:06:17 Transcript Narrator (N): At an early age, Giovanni knew that he wanted more from his life. He knew one day he would have to leave the only place he’d ever known. Giovanni Guglietti (GG): The biggest problem was that I, I was the oldest. And I was pushing like crazy. We had to get out …
  • Quotes - Deciding to Leave
    … and I and our 11- mouth old daughter arrived in Quebec City, Canada. We decided to leave our homeland of the Netherlands for a better life … Some unscrupulous venders aware of this kept hounding my parents to buy more of their goods and it would not surprise me if one of them, a …

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