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Fit to Fly …
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Processing Kosovar Refugees …
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Providing Language and Settlement Support …
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War Brides …
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Cold War Politics …
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by Jan Raska, Ph.D., Historian In the 1920s, immigrants from Czechoslovakia came to Canada in search of industrial work and available land for agriculture. Czechoslovakia’s diplomats in Canada promoted loyalty to Prague’s policies in the hopes that Slovaks and Czechs would unite into a …
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Not all immigration stories are a straight line. Abdoulaye Baldé's journey, with steps forwards and backwards was a series of difficult life lessons. “I consider Canada to be my university,” he says. The youngest of four, Abdoulaye grew up in Guinea-Conakry surrounded by a fiercely protective …
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Trace Your Roots Just as Pier 21 was a new start for nearly one million immigrants, a journey into your family history could also begin here at the Scotiabank Family History Centre. Visit In Person: Every visitor who enters the Scotiabank Family History Centre is greeted by a knowledgeable and …
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