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… My name is William (Bill) Gouweleeuw from Parry Sound, Ontario. Recently my wife and I were on a bus trip (15 days) … 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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… Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 21, 2021) “Conditions are so much different out here from what you have in the East” Immigration Facilities at … immigration structures. Difficult Beginnings Although the city had already dealt with massive groups of migrant labourers after the …
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… were not considered “a class of colonists who will be likely to do well in our country.” [2] Canadian authorities also paid for agents to … This response culminated on 12 August 1911 with the passage of an Order-in-Council banning “any immigrants belonging to the Negro race, … discussion of the context here: The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers ) Order-in-Council PC 1911-1324 Library …
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… Coast Guards refused the boat to dock as Kenya was overwhelmed by so many refugees. We stayed on the boat for weeks until they finally … soccer ball from socks and newspapers. I remember that I had to save coins and beg the bigger boys in the camp to take me to the cinema to … came to shut down the refugee camp, I was smuggled across the border to Ethiopia. In this new country, I was able to begin my first …
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… for my father as a Market Gardener for eleven years. During the war we had lots of damage done to our business. There were three boys in our … way of having a future in Holland. During that time, I had my feelers out in different countries – France, South Africa, Australia, and … I remembered that after the war was over, the Canadians were looking good to me. Then, two boys in my neighbourhood invited me to their home …
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… Roberts-Pichette and find myself writing in the hopes that someone out there can help us with a question. Patricia wrote to me back in 2011 while researching her book on the Middlemore home children. During our …
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… here at the museum is “what made you leave your home and decide to come to Canada?” Some respond that it is for new opportunities, to … mother looked at me - she was in tears. “Do you know where Canada is? How long do you think it will take you to come back home?” I replied, …
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… became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be … early interwar period. Against the backdrop of a Canadian state that had formulated a specific construction of Victorian and British … European and Asian immigrant groups to Canada, but her focus on social order suggests a preference for the Anglo-conformity of diverse …
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… What was the 1923 Act that closed the door on Chinese immigration? How did the politics of exclusion develop in Canada? What were the … came in its fifth paragraph, on entry and landing, where it laid out the acceptable classes for entry. Under the Act, the only classes … students, along with children of Chinese descent born in Canada who had gone out of the country “for educational or other purposes.” All …
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… all those thing, you know. Oral History 13.11.23BDS with Bwe Doh Soe Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Return to Refugee … Karen and Canadian - Bwe Doh Soe …