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Time 0:04:04 Transcript What does a new life mean to you? There are many reasons to start a new life. I had to start a new life when the Cultural Revolution happened. When it finished, I was able to go back to school and could start life again. I decided to move to Japan to change my life then. As …
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Time 0:02:45 Transcript From its creation out of Lake Agassiz to today, Lake Winnipeg has long been generous to those who understood its opportunity. lt has been a supplier of food to my family and other peoples from lceland who settled along its shores. Lake Winnipeg also provided the spark that …
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Time 0:04:46 Transcript When I was 17 years old I went with my father winter fishing. We fished sauger. And this sauger in Icelandic was called svartenpick meaning, black pickerel. One day, I said to my dad, I'm in the bonspiel but I'll just run home, curl the game and then run back. My dad didn't …
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Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago my son said “mother make up your mind, where is home?” When my husband and I told our families and friends that our plan was to move to Canada, only for 2-3 years, just to learn the …
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Time 0:03:07 Transcript My name is Elva Simundsson. Traditional Icelandic names tend to have meaning so my name means “ripples in a stream”. I grew up as a third generation Canadian of Icelandic roots. Our family farm is in the Interlake area of Manitoba. Grandfather Johann, or afi in Icelandic, …
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Time 0:03:18 Transcript We are family of four from Akureyri in Iceland. We had a beautiful little house on hill in Akureyri. I always wanted to move to a different country, me and my husband often talked about it over the years but it was never the right time. Then everything changed and Iceland …
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Time 0:04:02 Transcript It was one bright sunny day when a man with flip flop changed my life. He was a revolutionary guard who came to our door. You see I was a Baha’i and it was not a right religion to have then and there in Iran of 1983. Within a day, revolutionary court ruled that I am a …
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Time 0:03:18 Transcript Immigration never was a topic that I thought much about before beginning my placement at Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington. After all, I was born and raised in Canada. On the other hand, both my parents were immigrants, born and raised on opposite sides of the world, in …
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Time 0:03:37 Transcript One day, my daughter came home and asked me the question, dad, why do some of the students in my school call me ‘Paki’. My reply was ‘it is not a polite word’ and I will have a visit with your school principal. Both my wife and I were born in Uganda but of Indian origin, we …
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Time 0:03:48 Transcript When I lived in Niamey, my parents’ house was like a busy bird nest. Everybody was there. Now when I go home, there’s only 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 …