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… By Elsie Mills I stood at the window today looking across a field of sweet corn. So many years have passed and so much has happened. It’s … orderly. I was posted to Paignton, Devon and the fickle finger of fate stirred the pot. My Canadian husband-to-be was in a convalescent …
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… April 23, 1929 at Byker, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England C.O.R.B. 1824 In the late summer of 1939, my mother, sister and I were evacuated to the village of Embleton in Northumberland from my …
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… Walter Kleinwort, 1929-1965 By Margarete (Kleinwort) Gillies At the age of 23, my … worked, my father with his sense of adventure wanted to make his own way in a country that held a certain kind of mystic for him. Father … and shovels Father and his best friend were put to work along the railway line that threaded its way through the Rockies. Somewhat dismayed, …
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… "Little Italy". I was difficult for my parents to raise 5 children. We all did well. It was a proud moment for my dad to become a Canadian … never board. Our vacation was to go to Centre Island, at the foot of Bay Street, High Park and the Zoo. Mom gave the best birthday parties …
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… My mother went on to learn English at night school in Thunder Bay. She would take the bus on cold winter nights (very freezing …
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… April 1955 Our trip was never without excitement; we left our hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to … departing from the Port of Naples. Well, our excitement started right away as I was sick and no matter how much my dad tried to bribe the …
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… May 10, 2025–January 18, 2026 Recipes eat make share Perfect Pairings Canada’s food is as diverse as its people. How and what we eat is … over 400 years of immigration and relationships between newcomers and Indigenous Peoples. Food connects us to the past, to place, and to each other. Explore the connections between food and immigration in Canada through the universal experiences of eating, making, and …
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… those images in future. Step 2: Organize Everyone has their own way of organising their digital files, but choosing consistent … Physical photographs are also susceptible to deterioration, but one way of preserving these images for the future is to scan and “digitize” … personal memories, and writing your recollections down is an excellent way to provide background information for the images. There are some …
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… "But Why Would You Leave the Boston States?" This was a question I came to expect in the … 1970’s when I met new people in communities around St. Margaret’s Bay where I have lived for most of my life. In our tours of the Pier 21 section of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 we talk about the "pushes and pulls" of immigration—those factors that …
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… home on 1 July 1902 with his brother Fred Davis . He and his brother were found wandering in the streets of the East End of London by the police, who contacted the National Society for the Prevention of … in two separate Barnardo's homes in East London, near Stepney Causeway, almost opposite the Methodist Mission Church; Albert went to …