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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 14, 2020) Introduction Since Confederation, Canadian immigration officials have considered many factors in determining whether an individual was ‘admissible’ and would be …
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… well on his way to a lucrative law career. A bona fide war hero with a top flight degree in International Law could have made a killing … night, fighting on land and in the air. But on April 11 1945 my dad said that we had to sort our potatoes to have seed potatoes for planting; because the Germans were coming and take …
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… White hostility against the Chinese increased in the postwar period as poor economic conditions were regularly blamed on visible minorities. …
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… In this sooty place they were like a promise of spring. Mother said that they were much too old and expensive for me; I did not agree … people of Canada That did not take our things, even when they had the chance? And so, at that C.N.R. station, we all started to grow the … roots to hold it down and make it richer, Or else the topsoil will become dry and blow away. Canada has made the promise of the shoes come …
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… Salvatore Di Falco was born in Sicily in 1931. His family was a poor family (they were eight brothers). When he was 20 years old, he went to Canada like an emigrant. He was a guest in his uncle’s house in Toronto, in … was pregnant with her second child my grandparents decided to come back to Italy. So my father was born in Castelfiorentino on the …
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… breeze was sweeping the air in the sunny mid-morning of Tuesday, June 26, 1951. The USNS General Harry Taylor , a U.S. merchant ship which … for the moment when the uncomfortable ocean crossing would finally come to an end. We were taciturn while the sound of the waves striking … anticipation the start of a new beginning from the moment they would set foot on a new land and stepped over the threshold of Pier 21. The …
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… 1928, my grandfather was the first family member to arrive in Quebec City after sailing on the Duchess of Bedford from Liverpool, England. … in the grand scheme of things.) Even with the physical pain, Mom was a top notch softball catcher playing for the town of Two Hills. This … Richard on October 30, 1953 and my birth on December 11, 1954. To her credit, my mother kept the house running very efficiently for a year …
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… Italy Ship Name: Conte Biancamano Date of Arrival: November 11, 1954 Left Italy 2 November 1954, All Souls Day, arrived in Canada 11 … to Montreal in 1952, Uncle Anthony Mandato said to Uncle Giuseppe “come to live in Windsor, so it will be easier for me to visit you”. One … grandmother being part of the group it was expedited to 7 months. We visited often by bus, trains and later in 1958 I purchased a car and …
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… 1945, I returned to Canada on the hospital ship Letitia. I was 26 at the time. This was a memorable trip in several respects. The ship … outriggers carrying searchlights beamed on the red crosses on each side. We found this a little scary for, although the war was over, we … The Nursing Sister gave me permission to sleep in the open on the top deck. With a pillow and a couple of blankets it was really a most …
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… Blackman’s parents told them they were going to Canada. They were thrilled. They were born in Canada and their family had moved back to their … journey to begin,” recalled Grace. Grace and Percy Blackman in 1940. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2017.222.1] “My … absolutely, wonderful to us and did everything they could to make us comfortable, entertained and happy. “On one occasion they took me to …