• Annemarie Buchmann-Gerber
    Swastika Painted on Her House Time 0:02:31 Transcript I had incidents, that’s again us being a newcomer in Prince Albert, that’s later when we had the two children my daughter was two so it was in ’76, we bought our first little house and we moved, and my husband and I at home we speak …
  • Stanley Jones, England 1948
    …In early March, 1970, I attended a meeting on co-op housing in Sackville, and came home a member of a Co-op shortly after that, we were assigned a building lot, allocated $14,000, and we were on our own. … Stanley Jones, England …
  • Thank You Canada
    For 150 years, millions of people have come from far and wide to call Canada home. And while they each experience the challenges and opportunities this country provides differently, a common theme binds many of these stories together: the desire to build a better future for themselves and their …
  • Canada has changed me and my values
    I look back on how Canada has changed me and my values. I think the hardest part of emigrating was changing the way I believed things should be done. I was brought up to understand that the British knew how to do things correctly. – Adrienne Brown nee Drought, 1961 … Canada has changed me and my …
  • I have had the opportunity to live here
    We have had our share of sorrows, but also lots of joy. Life has been wonderful here in this marvelous country. I am thankful and grateful that I have had the opportunity to live here. Canada, in my opinion, the greatest country and the most generous, fine people to be found. – Kathleen Udell nee …
  • Nation Builders
    In 2005, the Pier 21 Foundation launched the Nation Builders Campaign, an endowment to fund the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Under the leadership of Ruth Goldbloom, the Nation Builders Campaign accomplished its $7 million goal to establish this endowment fund. One million dollars was …
  • Berber (Bep) Koster, Netherlands 1953
    Our first house in Canada was a farmhouse 2 km outside of Bowmanville … Berber (Bep) Koster, Netherlands 1953 …
  • Borge Eskesen, Denmark 1957
    In 1963 we bought our first house in West Vancouver … Borge Eskesen, Denmark 1957 …
  • Charles Bonello, Malta 1951
    …In 1966 we bought our first house in Etobicoke, a suburb of Toronto … Charles Bonello, Malta 1951 …
  • Ed Smith, Netherlands 1952
    Mom and Dad worked had to improve the family way of life … Ed Smith, Netherlands 1952 …