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… an affront, a provocation, a frontal attack. The decision to come to Canada was a piece of cake. Luebtheen had a bus service to the … ties and nice pants, marking the quotations on the board. I secretly wished I could have a job like that. Would you believe that I did end … “Why not move properly?” I thought and made an application to come to Canada. The Canadian government advanced me the fare and I …
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… ballet in Halifax. The dancers who were established in Halifax wished to dance with the newly formed National Ballet in Toronto, and …
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… for work in the mines, so his employment was sporadic. During a Sunday visit with relatives, one of the men asked how work was. Franco said …
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… but we became used to it just like everyone else there. My father had come to Canada 6 years earlier and had a very good and secure job with … and my son had the opportunity to go to Halifax and they both went to visit the now-famous Pier 21. They were there during the summer and …
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… in that she died in 1959, 5 years before I was able to return for a visit in the summer of 1964). I had very mixed feelings when I left the …
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… as our liberators in the spring of 1945 also influenced my decision to come to Canada. There were also many reports from Canada that it was a … recall the Dutch authorities determined that I owed 1200 guilders in income tax, which I had to pay out of my meager savings. I received … a Dutch woman residing in the west end of Ottawa to see if I could visit her for the afternoon. I went over that afternoon and began a …
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… new life was about to begin. This past July I had an opportunity to visit Halifax, Nova Scotia. I visited Pier 21 which stands in all its grandeur. It is mostly …
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… Ralph and Kay (McAndrew) Collicott Joanne Collicott Mc Guigan was born to Canadian … lived in those hills. If you ever caught one, your every wish would come true.” Kay was reluctant to leave her family and beloved Ireland … knit from Nanny and then she taught a lot of the other women from the community who would come for an afternoon visit. In 1960, I remember a …
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… Shackles like this reproduction, created by a blacksmith at Port Greville, Nova Scotia, were used on enslaved … important. It answers a lot of questions, not only for the greater community but for the African Nova Scotian and Black Canadian community. Here at the Black Cultural Centre, when we would have school …
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… . If you would like to bring a Tribal Fusion Art treasure home, please visit our Boutique. Basket of Berries Basket holds stories woven …