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… Time 0:01:22 Transcript: In our section Escape by Sea in Refuge Canada we have these two life jackets that were worn by children who … boat in the Mediterranean sea in 2015 They’re on loan to us from the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology. These two children were in a … as his family seeks asylum in a country in the European Union. One can only just think about the little person wearing this life jacket …
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Life in the United States Time 0:00:46 Transcript I wasn't involved in any of the heavy duty demonstrations, the ones I was in were more the peace marches, so I didn't occupy any university offices or do any of that sort of thing, but uh, but I was definitely involved in, there was one march we had …
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… later I was to discover we sailed across on the tail end of a hurricane. One of my first memories in landing in Halifax and leaving the … show up, friends of my mothers' from the ship drove us to Dundas. (I can only imagine the horror my mother must have felt that day). However … well with a happy reunion in Dundas and the start of my new life in Canada. In 1951 my brother was born. He now lives in Tennessee and my …
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… contact the Museum’s Collection Manager collections@pier21.ca or Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 1055 Marginal Road Halifax, … we will cease providing access to the work until or unless it can determine that such uses are permitted. The Museum may work with …
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… and we chummed around together during the voyage. After five years in Canada I sometimes wondered how these brides fared. Unfortunately I did … Scotland, in time to celebrate Christmas 1940. He served in the Royal Canadian Artillery in England and Europe returning to Canada on the Pasteur June 1945. He can remember how elated he felt as …
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… DIMITRI AND ANASTASIA TARASUK FAMILY: VOYAGE TO CANADA Dimitri (35) and Anastasia (33) and their five children, Mary … Jeanne (3) and Walter (2) emigrated to Horodische in the Ukraine to Canada in 1930, aboard the ship Koscuiszko. Political unrest and fear for their lives motivated them to start a new life in Canada. Life in the Western Ukraine occupied by Poland was dangerous. …
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… Children April 2, 1954 The move to Canada seemed imminent. My father’s parents along with some of his younger brothers and sisters had already immigrated to Canada a few years prior. My father felt that after the war, the future … made the journey by train to Ottawa. We were greeted and warmly welcomed by members of the Salvation Army where one particular family took …
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… Age on Arrival: 3 years old My Family will be celebrating 50 years in Canada on March 2nd, 2008, immigrating from our southern roots of Rende … have been travelling with a total of seven children on this voyage to Canada. Filomena , Pasquale, Franco, Anna, Julianna, Mario (me), and … enough to purchase a home on St. Annes Rd. in Toronto's West end. I can viividly recall the grass lawn covered with a topping of white snow …
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… do this to us, I thought, but it had to be done to join my father in Canada. He had been away since 1956. For 10 days this was our home. For … to the seats in the train, it was a big mess of dough. I also bought a can of peaches but we had nothing with which to open it. I cried and …
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… the image, in the top right-hand corner, I notice a washing machine (complete with an attached hand-operated clothes wringer!). For some of … too much alcohol into the country. To this woman, the action is incomprehensible as, in my mind, she has never travelled much beyond the … owners ever thought for a moment about a possible electrical voltage incompatibility between the old world and the new... What do you notice …