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Life in the United States Time 0:02:22 Transcript I had just graduated from university—1965. I wasn’t home two weeks. This would be in May because school used to end in the end of April there. I was home two weeks and I got a letter from the government saying to report to Portland, Maine for your …
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Leaving the United States CMIP 21 · Decision to Come to Canada Time 0:01:51 Transcript They advertised in one of the American journals and this was a job for a researcher in their clinical investigation unit. And I applied. And they accepted me. So, the second pull, as I say, I had some familiarity …
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Leaving the United States Time 0:02:25 Transcript Because I had all these memories about—I shared earlier about—"How could you do this to your mother? How could you do this to your family? How could you do this to people who loved you? How could you do this to your country? You're a communist. …
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Leaving the United States Time 0:01:30 Transcript And I had come from a family where my father had been drafted and served five years in the U.S. Army during World War Two and seen enough to realize that war is not good. He was on the winning side and he survived it without any physical injury um …
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Leaving the United States Time 0:01:14 Transcript Leaving the US was difficult, like I said, besides family and friends, neighborhood, what your familiar with. You know, it was really difficult on many levels. I felt really guilty. I was leaving behind people that I knew, you know, I had friends …
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Leaving the United States Time 0:02:43 Transcript My parents disowned us because we were leaving the country, my father told my husband to pull up his pants and be a man. So, that was hard. And leaving behind all my friends in my town, um, my high school, my, everything that I was familiar with. It …
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Life in Canada Time 0:00:47 Transcript Otherwise I think everything was at least as good in Canada. For me I was almost like a non-immigrant in many respects. As a child I visited Canada so I knew it was right across the border. Even when my grandmother gave me the money to buy a car, I shopped …
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Life in Canada Time 0:00:51 Transcript Emily Burton (EB): So do you see yourself as an immigrant? Tom Corcoran (TC): I see myself as belonging here as opposed to there. I don’t know what that means. Do I see myself as an immigrant? No. I never felt like an immigrant. EB: Now why do you think that …
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By Anthony Black, Senior Writer Published on 04/01/2022 Lawrence Hill What do turquoise crocodiles and gifted children have to do with the aftershocks of the transatlantic slave trade? Award-winning writer Lawrence Hill (The Book of Negroes) spoke with us about his new novel Beatrice and Croc Harry …
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Time 0:03:09 Transcript Some people are born lucky but the account my fate was written with tears. I was born in a village of India in Uttar Pradesh. I lost my father when I was only two. My mother became a young widow and was always sad and unhappy. My childhood was a tale of tears. I was badly …