• Immigration Records and Family History Research Help
    … immigration records, manifests and passenger lists . Research we can help with: Someone arrived between 1865 and 1935 The Scotiabank … Family History Centre has access to a variety of databases which can aid in the location of records from this era. Someone sailing from … to 1960. Someone sailing on the Holland-America Line or Swedish American Line after 1935 The Scotiabank Family History Centre currently …
  • Eva Kende nee Varadi
    … our apartment testing the weight of the satchels and decided that we can handle carrying them for hours. My mother’s cousin gave us a large … tea with lemons was boiling away and several women were spreading jam on slices of bread as fast as their arms could go. Someone was … to consider taking responsibility for us. He suggested we try to come to Canada or the USA. He sent us a little money to supplement the …
  • Setting The Table: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities
    … Transcript Screen Text SETTING THE TABLE: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities Screen text with audio I was born in the countryside…in the … of Vihiga in western part of Kenya. My mom was a very, very welcoming woman. She raised us to be able to embrace whoever comes in and … Setting The Table: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities …
  • All or Nothing by Jessica
    … we were invited too. My mom was very involved with the Filipino community, so my dad would take us to support the events and …
  • Customs and Traditions: Holiday Edition!
    … In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we … this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them when they come to Canada. These are the aspects of culture that people don’t pack …
  • Maksymchuk Andrew Anna
    … had endured enough. He had heard about the promise of free land in Canada. His pioneering spirit stirred within him, yearning for a free … and Victor, 3, were amongst the second group of Ukrainian settlers to come to Canada. The first had arrived in 1891. On June 6, 1930, the … to turning the Prairies into Canada's breadbasket. They would also become part of a mosaic of cultures, blending across a vast land, …
  • Unforgettable by Hewan
    … with me; I can’t get it package and get it shipped to me. Canada has become from there to permanently here. After living for four years here; … when I was in elementary school when we had some one that’s foreign come, we would always follow them around and ask them all these …
  • Stereotypes Hurt by Eric
    … me a job. Three months later, I was in the restaurant working when the commandant and two other men came to take me away. I asked them in … there right away. They interviewed me many times. They questioned the commandant and he denied my experience, but when they met my boss from …
  • Empress of Ireland - The Model
    … model. Everything on this model is built by hand. It didn’t come out of a box. It took me, approximately, about 800 hours over a …
  • Reborn by Sergio
    … in Bolivia. It is a developing country with many challenges to overcome. Often people did not agree with the decisions of the government … generation we have to pay the price, but this price is cheap in comparison to all the great things that we receive every day in Canada. …