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  • Virtual Field Trips
    … Interpreters, will dive into Canada’s immigration past. Perfect for education and community groups, and tailored for different ages. If you have … (plus local GST/HST) Where Are You Really From? Ages 12+ $140 Mystery Visit With the Museum Ages 8 - 14 $140 Immigration Simulation - Online …
  • A Lifetime of Giving
    … started. The pair, who have now been married for 61 years, recently visited the Museum. In all those years they have never exchanged … an immigrant woman who went into labour at Pier 21, and walking for four hours in one of Halifax’s worst blizzards to get to an emergency … great-grandchild, as well as travelling. Since retiring, the pair has visited numerous Canadian destinations as well as Norway and Australia. …
  • Waldoza Andreassen Family
    … Denmark and made their way to Vancouver. The children came back to visit Pier 21 museum 60 years to the date for a visit. Father- Eyvind Nicolai Guldbrand Waldoza Andreassen Mother- …
  • Sister by Heather
    … it, but it was hard too. It was difficult to be away from my family, visiting infrequently. Now that I am living again in Ontario, I can meet up with my mom for an afternoon walk, or go shopping or for coffee with my sisters. … old memories. I realized that even though my grandparents chose to come to Canada to pursue new opportunities, they also gave up a lot to …
  • Eva Kende nee Varadi
    … our most prized worldly possessions. The revolution that started with so much hope was beaten; Budapest was in ruins and bleeding. Mother’s … 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 …
  • Run Away by Oumou
    … one person in the nest. My mother is by herself. 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? … me as a girl – he just looked at me as his child and he wants the best for me. At this time not a lot of girls are educated. Sometimes, they …
  • Where Does My Heart Sing? by Marianne
    … make Florida my permanent home. Is it time to move again? – and again for a man? I was born in Singapore and raised a Catholic by strict … wrote to him and sent him a gift. A year later, I decided to pay him a visit in the Yukon. When I first arrived I was struck by its beauty, … walk behind my house and be in the middle of wilderness. My planned visit of 2 weeks stretched to present time. When we found out Albert …
  • Then and Now by Gunnvor
    … Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come …
  • Yolanda Garcia
    … So would you say that Canada feels like home to you now? YG: Uh home for me, yes, definitely. Uh—it is going to sound very bad, but I’m … uh—now this is my place and, and I’m going to Colombia basically to visit my family, my—my close family, my parents and my siblings, and … Biography: Yolanda Garcia was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia. She completed an undergraduate degree in systems engineering from …
  • Mary Moir Cathcart
    … 21, a story of friendship by Mary Cathcart My friend, Grace Cadieux, also a London War Bride, and I were lucky enough to be able to change our … Not knowing I was on my way, my husband Neil had driven his parents to visit his sister in Waterton Park, Alberta. With difficulty, the Red … to meet me in Winnipeg. I lived in Fort Frances with my husband (a fur buyer) until after his death and I retired from the paper mill. In …

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