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… mother, Janet Black Thomson, was born 10 January, 1922 in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. She was the youngest of four children born to Elizabeth and William Thomson, a tailor and … through the next few months. It was the custom of our Grandfather to have young men who were serving in the war and away from their own …
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… at the Marquis Public School. Later education includes an Honours B.A. from the U. of S. in Saskatoon and an M.A. from the University of … only up to Grade 11, many of us in the Marquis district would not have graduated from high school. After attending Normal School in Regina and after teaching …
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… Why and how I came to Canada I was born 1931 the second of five children into a very well off family in Vienna / Austria. After a care free wonderful childhood … World War when we lost everything. Early 1944 I was evacuated with my high school to a mountain side south of Vienna from where we had to …
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… or marine photography. There's a million ways to use it. I think it comes from personal convictions and curiosity about the world. And I … itself in different parts of the world- people that are fleeing for their lives. Have you found that there are similarities between … place. For example, if we think of Syria, the average reader of a newspaper or someone who watches the news may just think it's overrun …
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… with photographer Darren Ell. Darren’s work, along with the work of fellow photographer Roger LeMoyne, is the basis of Crossing Lines: A … the stories of migrants in border regions? There are many things one can do with photography. Shooting sports or marine photography. There's … in front of his daughter- point blank in the head… And they said, “We have to get out of here. I have a young child.” And that story repeats …
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… Introduction: Origins of World Refugee Year In the spring of 1958, four young individuals affiliated with the Bow Group, a conservative … of the UN International Geophysical Year the previous year, the four individuals proposed a year dedicated to a united endeavour to … of the United Nations, specifically the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Relief and …
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Imagine going to a school in a new country where you don’t speak the language. Where the teaching methods and curriculum are different. Where you don’t know anybody. The Museum’s collection features lots of stories of people starting school in Canada. Some are funny, some are sad, and all show the …
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Imagine going to a school in a new country where you don’t speak the language. Where the teaching methods and curriculum are different. Where you don’t know anybody. The Museum’s collection features lots of stories of people starting school in Canada. Some are funny, some are sad, and all show the …
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… I wanted to try to co-operate by putting in my nickel's worth as to ‘how, why, and what for' I wanted to come to Canada. I worked for my father as a Market Gardener for eleven …
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… the war we had lots of damage done to our business. There were three boys in our family and my younger brother was engaged to be married. I … and England, but I could not get the satisfaction I was looking for. I remembered that after the war was over, the Canadians were … they were leaving Holland to immigrate to Canada. They also told me how to go about it. They started in late 1946 and in 1947 they went …