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… the ocean was not a smooth one. At one point, traveling across the Bay of Bisque, the waves were so rough and high, Fred remembers hearing the propeller out of the water as the boat was tossed up and down like a toy. Many were seasick, even many of the crew, and Fred remembers having to bring …
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… including the Queensway in Ottawa and the airport in the James Bay LG2 project. They stayed in the Park Extension area all their lives …
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… Misconceptions about Winnipeg and Manitoba Time 0:02:43 Transcript I’m a bit of a nerd so I started to research Winnipeg—I thought I was moving to Winnipeg, let me note, my parents did not clarify that I was …
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… Advice to Potential Immigrants Time 0:01:51 Transcript I think—I think the first thing is you’re open-minded, okay. Uh you have to look at Canada do …
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… Getting Her First Job at the Grocery Store Time 0:02:48 Transcript … for my first job here,” because we had read a French woman’s blog saying how she also immigrated to Quebec and worked at a small store. She said it was really great to interact and get used to the Quebec accent. I said, “OK, I ‘m going to …
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… Child's Perspective and Introduced to New Food Time 0:02:02 Transcript CB: Yeah, yeah my parents said, “This is going to be our new home.” But they don’t know anything and I don’t know—it’s like we’re going to unknown. Like they said, …
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… In the winter of 1952, at 2:00 a.m., Antonio, Renata and their sons … birth. Tullio was born in the Hotel Villa Mascagni located on Kvarner Bay. After the Second World War, the Istrian Peninsula was given to the … few men who were travelling onboard, helped many families find their way to the right trains to continue their own journeys. Renata told the …
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By recording peoples’ immigration stories through oral history interviews, the Museum contributes important documentation on the human facet of immigration and makes it possible to share these stories with the greater public. Transcript We can learn a lot about immigration from government records …
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… eat make share recipes Explore recipes → Soft Landing Seven bite-sized stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the places they landed-people who changed …
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… March 1952 At 15 years of age, somehow I knew I would not always stay in my home country. That was about one year after a 5-year occupation … The idea to emigrate did not seem strange to me, or my family. We had already moved three times by the time I was nine. Once we moved …