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… even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
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… attending daycare. Everything was going well until immigration denied us Canadian residency. We hired a lawyer to appeal, and he recommended that we move to Toronto. In Toronto, we had to start from … again. The Ministry made a video about our story, which is on their website. Whenever possible, my husband and I give talks about …
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… in Albania, notes that “Communication was difficult…Cell phones died around two o’clock in the afternoon…Moving the refugees required a … 48 (April 2006): 7. See the Canadian Immigration Historical Society’s website, http://cihs-shic.ca/bulletin/ . ↩ United Nations High … Canadian Forces Logistics Association , 2019, https://www.cfla-alfc.org/stories/op-parasol/; Canadian Armed Forces and Kelsey Berg, …
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… 8, 1928. There were only 54 people disembarking at Pier 21 on that day and included passengers from Holland, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, …
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… Joyce Emily Sherwood nee Callow with tributes by her sister Gwen Milton and her daughter JoAnn Bell. English War Bride, Aquitania, …
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… This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier … her, the transatlantic journey was a matter of necessity or “something we had to do.” [1] As a Latvian refugee, Ernests Kraulis notes that the … 1948. Later during his journey, the weather changed leaving “waves as high as the roof of a two-storey building...” Kraulis also feared that …
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… in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent the diversity of the country’s population in our … a majority English-speaking area? The following interview clips, where we focus on the pull factors, begin to address this question. In a short clip from Souleymane Sidibé’s interview , he answers the question by talking about initially going to Calgary, Alberta, …
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… in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent the diversity of the country’s population in our … questions emerging from an initial exploration of these interviews is: why do some French-speaking people decide to settle in a majority …
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… to the growth and prosperity of Canada. [1] In May of each year we celebrate the contributions that Asian Canadians have made to our … In 1895, a Canadian Protestant missionary, Dr. Susanna Rijnhart (née Carson), became only the second western woman to enter Tibet. Born … result, a majority of those who fled their homes eventually made their way to India. The Indian government was unable to provide aid to every …