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Mum’s story Our 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 staunch Presbyterian. Called “Nettie” by family members, she grew up as the much-cherished ‘baby’ …
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… Single Men and Women December 9, 1955 – Ryndam Born Melchior Franciscus … der Laan, the youngest of five children. The oldest being my brother Han, 17 years my senior, three sisters, Adre, Mien and Gre, then yours …
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… of coal in his pocket, while mother, four of my five siblings and I, were sitting around the fire waiting for the New Year to be rung in. Mother casually mentioned emigrating. She had spoken of this many …
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… 3 siblings. A brother and 2 sisters. At later dates 2 more brothers were born. When 6 years old, I went to elementary school and in 1942 … any traffic on the roads. Because of the danger of being shot at on my way to and from school, my parents thought it best at that time to take … officers. He was born in Rotterdam and came as a 13 or 14 year old boy to our village, to escape the hunger situation in the big cities. …
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… a vivid dream and a nearly forgotten history led to a new exhibition Chinese Head Tax Certificate issued to Lee Wing, 1916. Canadian Museum of … weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, Lee (who lives in Toronto) was back in Halifax … found engineering diagrams her father had drawn as a student. Old receipts from her grandfather’s laundry in Halifax’s south end. A 1921 …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction: Up to the early 1980s, refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination system remained partial to the interests of the Canadian government rather than the claimant. The …
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… Canada by Helena Lengacher, April 2016 I was born September 6, 1920, in Waterland-Oudeman situated in Oost-Vlanderan, Belgium to the proud … My father was the Mayor of the town and owned the local brewery which supplied beer to all the neighbouring restaurants and …
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… [2] Mackenzie King recommended that the government ban immigration by way of Hawaii in order to pacify growing anti-Asian sentiment. [3] … circumstances to an incompatibility with the Canadian climate and way of life. However, specific exclusion of Indian immigrants based on …
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… than many individuals realize. The discipline of history can be viewed as a complex interplay between continuity and change. Identifying Continuity and Change during Research to Support Exhibit Development Today, we are going to discuss the third concept presented in the Historical …
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Karsh soon after his arrival in Canada, photographed in 1929 by his mentor, photographer John Garo. Credit: Yousuf Karsh wearing a turban/Library and Archives Canada/Yousuf Karsh fonds/e010752090 What does one of the 20 th Century’s greatest portrait photographers have to do with the Canadian …