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  • A Mother and Daughter Recall Frightening Days in Quarantine
    … ship to Canada and quarantined when they arrived at Pier 21, but the Haddad family still felt blessed. The Christian Palestinian refugees had already fled to Lebanon, then Syria, then Lebanon again. While Laima Haddad still hoped to return to her home one day, her …
  • Marcello Munaretto
    … born. Even though he was a surprise to his family, he was welcomed and well loved, especially by his sister who helped raise and care for him while his parents worked as tailors and barbers. Growing up in war torn Italy had its challenges. It was a time when families and friends relied on …
  • Open the Land by Margaret
    … Charles Midgley was born in York, England in 1882. By age 20 he had become the head gardener for a big estate. At the same time his desire … to this wonderful land….a real, almost unbelievable dream. He headed off to Liverpool to find a ship ready for the journey. He sailed on … to open up the land. No roads had been established, just rough trails, so the trip was not easy. Grandpa had applied for two quarter sections …
  • Annemarie Buchmann-Gerber
    … Time 0:02:31 Transcript I had incidents, that’s again us being a newcomer in Prince Albert, that’s later when we had the two children my daughter was two so it was in ’76, we bought our first little house and we moved, and my … next day was a swastika painted on that house in the front and “fuck off.” I didn’t even know the word “fuck off”, or I knew it was not …
  • Alexandros Dimitreos Sourtzis
    … the celebrations and music festivals in his village. It gave him great joy when he had the chance to sing and dance at these events that would last into the wee … Alexandros Dimitreos Sourtzis …
  • The Ellen Colmer Robson Family
    … abode. It is an old superstition and is supposed to bring the family good luck if a male is the first to cross the threshold in the new year … England. Father was outside with his piece of coal in his pocket, while mother, four of my five siblings and I, were sitting around the … the New Year to be rung in. Mother casually mentioned emigrating. She had spoken of this many times before but this time she was serious. …
  • My Fight for Ogoni Freedom by Saturday
    … He established the movement for the survival of Ogoni people. (MOSOP) I joined this crusade by Ken Saro Wiwa and as result of this, I … the refugee camp in Benin, I registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. In the camp, we were living in abject poverty. … help them. Maybe this story I am telling now will go a long way to do good things for the people of Ogoni. Return to St. John's …
  • Able Seaman Alex Chelekower
    … particularly for a boy. In recognition of this, she sent me away to Gotha, Germany, to a Jewish family who were strangers to me, when I was … house. But to me it just felt like I was being sent away because of something I must have done that was wrong and I was being abandoned. It … my mother and sister very often. Although the families in Gotha were good to me, I knew I was an outsider and I never fit in. When Hitler …
  • Immigrant Heroes and the Art of Everyday Activism
    … by the Museum’s Artist-in-Residence, Aquil Virani. Read what he has to say about what makes a hero, what makes for an ideal immigrant, and his … hopes for the future. Your project is called “Our Immigrant Stories.” How would you describe it? It’s an art project that asks you, “who is … and audiovisual installation created in collaboration with Erin Lindsay and Imago Theatre. Photo by Aquil Virani. The request for immigrant …

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