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… what it was like to live through a full-blown polio epidemic. There were no vaccines to combat this deadly virus. “80,000 Canadians became … after leaving Denmark I became a statistic. The next nine months were spent in quarantine at Toronto’s Sick Kid’s Hospital. “The … English and gradually found his Danish coming back. As soon as he was well enough to travel he and his mor (mother) joined his far (father) …
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… is STEVEN (ISTVAN) ERDOS I was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a Jew, I went through the war- years in Hungary, and after the war, when the … and to have a last drink together. The train took us to Bremen where we were settled into a temporary housing development for the few days …
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… in bronze, dot a 165 km trail in Ireland known as the National Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by twelve-year-old … onto crowded ships bound for Quebec. The year was 1847. Famine , a sculpture by Rowan Gillespie located in Dublin’s City Centre, depicts … Protestant-Catholic tensions among Irish communities occasionally erupted, including in Saint John, NB, which saw several violent riots. The …
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… In early twentieth-century Canada, there was widespread domestic … to ban Black immigration, although the number of Black immigrants seeking entry to Canada was quite small. [1] Immigration agents … Order-in-Council PC 1911-1324 …
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… 21, the focus of the collection is digital-born and digitized items, including oral histories, written stories, and digital archival materials … identified objectives to aim for in future, so we can find ways to adapt and improve our processes as technology changes. Functional Area … Benchmarking our digital preservation achievements …
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… you’ll only have to see him once. You won’t have to see him again.” Well, here I sit at a computer 66 years later writing about the meeting … very little about the evening except that he took me home all the way to Wembley which was many railway stations away from the centre of … Hazel L. West …
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… Pier 21 and the Robinson Family Perhaps the connections between us and Pier 21 should be committed to paper. Although sadly with … The Geoffrey Robinson Family …
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… S. Treur, age 34 and my mother Myntje (WILMA) W. Treur-Salij age 35. We travelled from the Hoek of Holland by ferry boat to London on March … 3000 Bathurst Street. This was above a store, which was occupied by B. J. Bielesch & Company Plumbing, & Heating Supplies, Electrical …
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… locked in the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21… it was a way to honour the immigrant stories in my own family.” —Frances … Pier 21 as one of its beneficiaries. The historian in me saw it as a way to further the Museum’s work. More importantly, it was a way to honour the immigrant stories in my own family. — Contributed by …
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… The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and Daniel Libeskind, architect, unveil the Wheel of Conscience on January 20, 2011. © … Designed by Polish-born architect Daniel Libeskind, the kinetic sculpture is a heavy steel wheel with four interlocking steer gears. Each …