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… As a federal Crown Corporation, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is subject to both the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act (the Acts). The Access to Information Act gives Canadian citizens, …
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… Tyyne Johanna Saarinen was only 27 years old when she set sail for the new world. She had $25 in her pocket. She had a small trunk with her life's possessions because she could not know if … points throughout Canada as the final leg of their long journey. For Ma, her final destination was Montreal. The immigrant trains or …
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… by Western University's MA Public History Program Students Fugitive or Free? Prior to 1850, … existed for all free blacks. The Act Against Slavery , passed in 1793, made Upper Canada (part of what is now Ontario) the first British … all men, women, and children, were free. [2] Artist Theodore Kaufmann condemned the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in his illustration “Effects …
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… His fiancée, Cornelia Maria van Wyk, traveled from The Netherlands to join him in the fall of 1952 and they were married on December 6, 1952 … grandfather to Mark, Chelsey, Bryan, Steven and Ian. Recollections of my Journey Following the end of the Second World War the economy in The Netherlands lay in shambles. Housing was in very short supply, and the population …
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… Sometimes I go to visit – I tell people I am going home. But when I am coming back to Canada, I tell people I am going home. So where is home? … They wanted him to be in the USA by May 3rd 1992. I said yes, before I contact my husband. It was a mixt filling because I am afraid to leave … will help me to heal. It was not easy from the beginning because the lack of English language and the difference of culture. In addition, my …
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… that were unclear or unseemly, and over generations those stories become our truths. But what if there was someone who could help decipher … is exactly what Cara MacDonald, Manager of Reference Services, did for my family in October 2015. By then I had been working at the Canadian …
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… The Otto Froese Family My son Robert and his wife Cindy attended a convention in Halifax in … 21, I told my son that is where my family and I landed in 1951. On May 15, 2001, my husband Bernie Feddema and their son Justin flew to … The Otto Froese Family …
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… Transcript Screen Text SETTING THE TABLE: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities Screen text with audio I was born in the … leZlie lee kam, Toronto Screen text with audio I was born in Penang, Malaysia. I have one brother. I come from a Buddhist family and at home, … and we always waited until my father came home. Screen text Home Economics, Peranakan Chinese, and Laska in Malaysia Siew Lin Polk Siew …
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… largely halted with the onset of WWII. The Netherlands was invaded in May of 1940. Dutch immigrants in Immigration Hall Credit: Library and …
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… Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago my son said “mother make up your mind, where …