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  • Maria, Margit, Steve and Else Molnar
    … Maria, Margit, Steve and Else Molnar …
  • Who Is Admissible? Immigrant Desirability and Immigration Acts since Confederation
    … [1] Two years later in 1869, Canada passed its first Immigration Act. Compared with later immigration legislation, the 1869 act set few … Canada / C-009798 Government of Canada (hereafter GOC), Justice Laws Website, “VI. Distribution of Legislative Powers,” accessed 23 April … Legislation;” Kelley and Trebilcock, Making of the Mosaic , 314, 324-326; Freda Hawkins, Canada and Immigration: Public Policy and Public …
  • The Rosalind Roberts Family
    … river was starting to break up and they had to jump from one piece of ice to the other to cross. Once on the north side of the river Jack … farm where Rosalind's brother George Davies picked them up the next day. The family then stayed with George for about one year. During the … moved several times, occupying land where previous people had built a house or other buildings but then through various circumstances had to …
  • Conrad, Joanne Cats
    … was much crying as family and friends wished them well. The departure day arrived and Mother's family took us to the pier in Rotterdam … boarded the train for Windsor, Ontario where we stayed at a boarding house for a week. An immigration officer drove us to Leamington, about … there was a sand floor, we had wooden crates to sit on and put our food in a well to stay cold. By fall the work season was over and we …
  • How Did I Get Here in My Life? by Barbara
    … foreign language in Japan and for six months, I lived in Tokyo and studied Japanese. In high school, I studied Latin, French, German and Spanish. Even though I had high marks, I … I loved learning language. I heard the language all around me and was completely involved in Japanese life, so I learned quickly to get along …
  • Bittersweet Freedom by Aliyah
    … like everyone else. Growing up in a small knit cultural & religious community in Ontario, everyone knows what you’re up to ALL the time, so basically my whole community knew that I was learning to ride a bike, but no one … poetry and had the best sense of humor always making everyone laugh. Coming to Canada changed all of that…. Reality is many immigrants …
  • Bannock - Shane M. Chartrand and Jennifer Cockrall-King
    … detailed accounts of who makes the best! I always cringe when Elders come to the restaurant and order it — they are my harshest critics. … for working the dough 2 tbsp + 1½ tsp (37 mL) baking powder (0.9 oz / 26 g) 2 tbsp + 1½ tsp (37 mL) granulated sugar (1.2 oz / 35 g) ¼ tsp / … since it’s a food adopted from early European contact, and the ingredients include processed white flour and white sugar. We acknowledge …
  • First Taste of White Bread
    … and we arrived in Orillia on April 1, 1953 on a lovely sunny day. Orillia has been home for the past 60 years. I married my … to be found..." - Christine Gerth ...Periodically, my father would come back and it was on one of these occasions that I told him that we … because as he only spoke Italian, he was not able to ask for anything else. I hungrily bit into the slice that was offered and I got the …
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    … are available on the Government of Canada’s Proactive Disclosures website ( https://open.canada.ca/en/proactive-disclosure ). Annual …
  • Port of Entry, Process and Gatekeepers – A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec during the Great Depression
    … hall which was covered by sparred boards covering years of filth. The food given to the detainees was also deplorable, where one of the men … that some its members were forced to spend their own funds to purchase food in order to survive. [4] In an effort to appease concerned … that each detainee was entitled to a clean bed and properly cooked food, many immigrants found that their surroundings were not congenial. …

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