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  • Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972
    … became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be traced back to the early interwar period. Against the backdrop … Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972 …
  • Wolfgang Paul Loofs
    … (based on mini-diary and memory) Sun 4 Nov 1951: Hopefully the last day at this crowded (8,000 people!) refugee camp where I don't know a soul, where you are not allowed visitors, and where all you can do is wait and write your good-bye letters: Mon 5 Nov 1951: … the mess I'm one of the few taking the job. Across the North Sea all day, by evening the Dover Cliffs are visible; through the Channel …
  • Corey Verwolf
    … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers came into our town and freed us from the …
  • The Otto Froese Family
    … and their son Justin flew to Halifax and were able to spend the day at Pier 21. It was exactly 50 years to the day that we arrived in … name, Otto Froese, on the Wall of Honour. It was a most memorable day. The displays, the film, the train, everything was very, very … 39, my stepsister Ruth 20 , I was 7, my brothers Peter (turned 5 that day) and Dirk 2, and my little sister Ute was 10 months old. Our nanny …
  • Charles J. Lutton
    … Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
  • Refugee: a Hero or Zero? by Sharmarke
    … was when I heard the news. I had to wrap up my last 10 years in 10 days. I was going moving again, but this time it was different. When I … soccer ball from socks and newspapers. I remember that I had to save coins and beg the bigger boys in the camp to take me to the cinema to … busy putting out the fires, the children were searching the ashes for coins. When the bulldozers came to shut down the refugee camp, I was …
  • The Barr/Britannia Colony, Part I
    … That same year, Charles II granted a Royal Charter to the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), declaring them “the true and absolute Lords and … of Trafalgar. Baird must have appreciated the company for, when he died, he left Barr with an inheritance. He also instilled in him “the … Most of these plans either did not come to fruition or did not last. [26] Some of his group were skeptical from the outset. Reflecting on his …
  • History
    … was an important waterway from pre-Roman times. The Magyars, who would come to be known as Hungarians, travelled from the foothills of the … after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Pier 21 was one of the entry points which welcomed many of these Hungarian immigrants, particularly the large group …
  • Pte. Charles Joseph Lutton
    … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by … was able to look back down the RAPIDO RIVER valley from their vantage points on the high ground. It was like seeing a newsreel in Technicolor … Major Frank Southby, O.C.”D” Company was seriously wounded, since died of wounds. An 8 NBH tank picked him up through an escape hatch on …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 1
    … 2020) Introduction Before the arrival of Europeans, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) nations were the primary inhabitants along the … narrows”). In 1535 , French explorer Jacques Cartier discovered a Haudenosaunee village, Stadacona, where some 1,000 inhabitants lived … corn, fishing, and hunting. In 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain established a trading post and habitation , and named it …

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