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… Immigrants) found on the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 website. Herman Leuteritz (1920-2008) Account of Immigration to Canada … the international boarder (one had to wait TWO years for that). Next day, a Monday, I reported to Mr. Cannon at the immigration office. He … would leave for another firm. Who could be happier than I? Up to that point I had felt down in the dumps, but a young teacher I met at the …
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… course of an interview. The recorded document is a primary source that can be archived and made available to the public. Why does the Museum … Museum exhibits, educational and interpretive materials, publications, website and social media engagement. Who can participate in an oral … any questions you have about the interview process or outcomes and any point. The interview begins with a brief introduction and then traces …
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… even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
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… even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
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… in the language.” And you know when you read the web sites for communities it is a marketing piece (laughs). So it was sold to me a … differently (laughs). And I liked the cosmopolitan feel from the website of Winnipeg and that you had people from all over the world, … to Winnipeg. Minus forty. So, yeah. Biography: Nomaqhawe (Noma) Sibanda was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1981. Noma’s parents had been part …
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… 8, 1928. There were only 54 people disembarking at Pier 21 on that day and included passengers from Holland, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, …
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… This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier … voyage.” Eventually, the Poggi family arrived at Pier 21 on Christmas Day in 1956. [3] In its final year of operation as an ocean immigration … and then permanently settled across Canada. Currently available on our website is part of our written story collection which includes stories …
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William John Campbell and Jean Vera Kathleen Campbell (nee Gerrard) Bill was born June 10, 1922 in Toronto. Jean was born December 29, 1924 and grew up in London, England. They experienced very different beginnings – Bill grew up an only child, living with different family members in various small …
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… birth? It all began in 1942 when my father and mother died within 15 days of each other. They left 7 of us. Four boys and three girls, the … kids. We had no future, with the small farm and lack of jobs. At this point my aunt received a letter from a cousin in Northern Ontario, … Bernardi was the translator from English to Italian, for all us that day. There was from 30 to 40 guys from my hometown of Poggiana Di Riese …