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  • Ruth Miranda
    … First Job in Canada Time 0:01:49 Transcript And it was—I was so extremely happy … Los Sauces, Chile in 1951. Following the military coup in Chile on September 11, 1973, life became increasingly dangerous for Ruth and her …
  • Louanne Aspillaga
    … Difference in School and Speaking Too Properly Time 0:01:19 Transcript ..the school system was …
  • Ethel Suarez
    … Citizenship and Belonging to a Country Time 0:02:27 Transcript ES: The day of the … to have a paper that says who we are. And to belong a country that accept me without questioning me. Let me free here. That you are here, that …
  • Pain of Hunger by Sudarson
    … Time 0:03:49 Transcript Mom used to tell me the story where I was born. She told me I was born in Bhutan, which is a beautiful Himalayan country. I don’t remember living there, but I remember the day we left; when I was crying with … Pain of Hunger by Sudarson …
  • Sergeant Elmo Hugh Munroe
    … with an incredible memory. When Dad talked about the "old days" we were transported to other times and places through his detailed and … to Dad and it gave him great pleasure. There was hardly a day when we, his "four", did not get a call or a visit. In later years Dad …
  • Staff Sergeant James Gregg
    … James Gregg was one of seven siblings (William, Gerald, Richard, James, Gertrude, John, and … of Corbin, B.C. At the young age of eighteen he decided to seek new adventures like many other boys and signed up for active duty in the … England. During one of these furloughs James would meet his "bride to be" (July 1940) and subsequently married Mary Price on February 9, …
  • John Devai, Olga Kimpel Devai
    … aboard the ship that I met my future husband, John Devai. By faith, we were both fortunate to have been located to Chatham, Ontario where … Chatham as seasonal workers for the sugar company. The photo was taken by, and published in the local newspaper, the Chatham Daily News. The …
  • Meta Echt and Marianne Ferguson
    … dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye." … meaning for me than for most people, although it may be in a different way from the meaning the poet had when he wrote the poem. To me those …
  • 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated August 21, 2020) Introduction: The Prague Spring and the Soviet-led Invasion of Czechoslovakia In 1968, liberal elements within the … 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees …
  • Royal Commission on Italian Immigration, 1904-1905
    … The Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Immigration of Italian Labourers to Montreal and the … recent influx of Italian labourers to Montreal and their exploitation by immigration agents. There were at least 6,000 Italians in Montreal …

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