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Animated by Grace An Music by Sigmund Washington Thy Anne Chu Quang is from Vietnam and now lives in Montreal. She's a project coordinator for the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach. She’s worked on projects with the French Solidarity Priority Fund and the French Agency for Development. Return to …
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Animated by Grace An Music by Sigmund Washington Thy Anne Chu Quang is from Vietnam and now lives in Montreal. She's a project coordinator for the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach. She’s worked on projects with the French Solidarity Priority Fund and the French Agency for Development. Return to …
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Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Leo Johnson spent eight years in refugee camps after fleeing war-torn Liberia in 1998. He arrived in Canada in 2006. Leo was a semi-finalist in CBC’s Next Great Prime Minister Competition. He’s also received the YMCA Peace Medal and the World …
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Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Leo Johnson spent eight years in refugee camps after fleeing war-torn Liberia in 1998. He arrived in Canada in 2006. Leo was a semi-finalist in CBC’s Next Great Prime Minister Competition. He’s also received the YMCA Peace Medal and the World …
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By guest contributor John Moses, Delaware & Upper Mohawk bands, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, and Director, Repatriation and Indigenous Relations at the Canadian Museum of History Departures During parts of its history, Pier 21 was as much a point of departure as it was a destination . …
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Time 0:25:18 Music plays while a camera pans over the Museum’s exhibit spaces. Words on screen: Annual Public Meeting 2023 Transcript Transcription We immigrated from Italy in 1959. I was eight years old. I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night but I remember the day that we docked at …
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GEERT (GEORGE) AND GEESJE (GE) WESTERHUIS -LUNSHOF FAMILY April 2022 On February 23, 1951 Geert and Geesje Lunshof and their 6 children arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax Nova Scotia. They had left Beilen, their village in The Netherlands, and had stayed with Geesje's parents, our grandparents in Meppel …
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32 pairs of children’s shoes, cast in bronze, dot a 165 km trail in Ireland known as the National Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by twelve-year-old Daniel Tighe and 1,489 others, two-thirds of them children . Suffering from famine and in dispute with their English …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Dr. Zak El-Ramly came to Canada on a student visa in 1969 from Egypt. He landed in Ottawa, where he completed a master’s degree in combustion engineering and a PhD in aeronautical engineering at Carleton University. He later became a …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Dr. Zak El-Ramly came to Canada on a student visa in 1969 from Egypt. He landed in Ottawa, where he completed a master’s degree in combustion engineering and a PhD in aeronautical engineering at Carleton University. He later became a …