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Shaping a Community Black Refugees in Nova Scotia …
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Time 0:03:45 Transcript Canada was looking for specialist technicians so my husband applied and was accepted and I joined him one year later. We were married by proxy in ‘55 and I came over in ‘56. The day I left Italy-I was 24 and living in a little town. It was really, really early. We were all …
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Royal Commission on Italian Immigration, 1904-1905 …
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Immigration Act, 1976 …
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Time 0:03:22 Transcript My memories of the ten day voyage were very mixed. I was excited to be on a ship but I saw so many sad people that I was confused. I remember people crying hard and waving handkerchiefs in the air. I looked over the side and saw big fish following the ship. I now realize …
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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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Port of Saint John …
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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 …