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  • Postwar Dutch Immigration through Pier 21
    … of some 500,000 Dutch nationals left their homeland from the late 1940s to the 1970s. Approximately 185,000 individuals, or 37 percent of the … would bring economic opportunity to Dutch newcomers. Since the 1890s, the two provinces with the largest arrival of immigrants from …
  • Starting Points: Researching Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History
    … countries remained overlooked and at times was ignored. [1] In the 1930s, sociologists and historians began to question the role of ethnic … policy and the socioeconomic fabric of their societies. Scholarship maintained an interdisciplinary nature as historians and sociologists … for they lack many of these same institutions. [4] By the mid-1960s, scholars of immigration and ethnicity began to question …
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    … including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis A single attendant accompanying a person with a disability Canada Day (July 1) Everyone … Pass cardholders receive: Admission for a year to the Museum and two complimentary admissions for guests 20% off regularly-priced …
  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
    … where Jean was working as part of the war effort. Prior to this she had worked on the London buses, but because she found the shift work too hard, she moved to the munitions factory. Bill and Jean dated for a while. … Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell …
  • Shaping a Community: Black Refugees in Nova Scotia
    … Black population consisted of enslaved individuals. In the early 1700s, approximately 300 slaves were brought to the French stronghold at Île Royale in present day Cape Breton, while additional numbers of slaves arrived between … shut down in 1816 after a significant decrease in Black migration. Today it is the site of the Armdale Yacht Club. 1815-1816 – Refugees …
  • Sapper Melvin E. Clark
    …     “Sapper” Melvin E ( Mel ) Clark MEDALS: 39/45 star Italy Star France Germany Star Defense of Britain Medal CVSM (Can Volunteer Service Medal) Victory Medal … Farnboro area / Embery On scheme along the coast ( Brighton ) with the 1st Battalion Engineers 1941-1942 - Soldiers and equipment were moved …
  • Michael Supino
    … On August 19, 1954, approximately one month shy of my sixth birthday, my mother, Teresina DiGirolamo, and most of my siblings, … family and limited resources, had no other option than to immigrate to Canada as countless thousands had done before him. Three years prior to … Mediterranean Sea was calm and uneventful. Soon we came to an enormous mountain. My older brother, Joseph, told me that this was Gibraltar, …
  • The Francesco Supino Family
    … On August 19, 1954, approximately one month shy of my sixth birthday, my mother, Teresina DiGirolamo, and most of my siblings, … family and limited resources, had no other option than to immigrate to Canada as countless thousands had done before him. Three years prior to … Mediterranean Sea was calm and uneventful. Soon we came to an enormous mountain. My older brother, Joseph, told me that this was Gibraltar, …
  • From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of the Canadian Museum of Immigration
    … From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of …
  • Mels van der Laan
    … truly, fondly known as Mels. Although very young at the time, I still can see the invading troops marching down the Dijk where I lived. I … the Canadian, British and American soldiers came through our town of Lisse in 1945. My fathers’ business was growing bulbs for export, along … Lavington, BC. After his return to The Netherlands, he was invited to come and have supper with our family and talk about his adventures …

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