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  • eat make share: a taste of immigration
    … May 10, 2025–January 18, 2026 Recipes eat make share Perfect Pairings Canada’s food is as diverse as its people. How and what we eat is shaped by over 400 years of immigration and relationships between newcomers and Indigenous Peoples. Food connects us to the past, to place, …
  • van Dongen
    … war so they had a great respect for them. Canada required only a ten-day boat trip. As it was, Dad was seasick for the entire ten days and spent the whole trip in bed. From Halifax, they traveled to … had to move out of the apartment in March (the same month the baby was due.) Apparently, they had sponsored new immigrants to work on the …
  • Helena Lengacher
    … Lengacher, April 2016 I was born September 6, 1920, in Waterland-Oudeman situated in Oost-Vlanderan, Belgium to the proud parents of Rene … War II, German forces invaded my country on May 10, 1940. In just 18 days of fierce fighting, the Belgium military was pushed back into a … It seemed as though the bombing would never end, and even at one point my mother fled our home in search of higher ground with most of …
  • LACW Elsie F. Mills
    … have passed and so much has happened. It’s August, 1999, a beautiful day. The sun is shining and the sky looks so huge. That was the first … to be at a dance, but I was! Ed (Jack Mills) was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in …
  • Sowada Lydia Dorothea Sieg Melanie
    … of German descent, spoke seven languages, and never went to school a day in her life. Until the invasion, the children spoke German and … Canada. They alternate between East and West. Dorothea worked for 26 years with the T. Eaton Co. and retired in 1993 at which time she …
  • FilomenaeSaveriaMandato
    … prisoner for eight years “another story”. Two of the older children died because they didn’t want to go back and died heart broken. The … to Montreal in 1952, Uncle Anthony Mandato said to Uncle Giuseppe “come to live in Windsor, so it will be easier for me to visit you”. One … seen for over 35 years and her son Uncle Anthony she hadn’t seen for 26 years with the wife Sarah and children all from Cleveland, Ohio. Of …
  • Warrant Officer Jack E. Mills
    … have passed and so much has happened. It’s August, 1999, a beautiful day. The sun is shining and the sky looks so huge. That was the first … supposed to be at a dance, but I was! Ed was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in …
  • Dennis Teitsma
    … Families Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get … away from it all. Living in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no … completed his tour of duty in the army. The air force had rejected him due to a weak eye. After working a few months at a chemical plant, he …
  • Facility Rentals Frequently Asked Questions
    … of SOCAN and Re:Sound. Both of these organizations levy fees in Canada for all events in which recorded music or live entertainment is employed. SOCAN (the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) represents music … Without dancing With dancing 1-100 $9.25 $18.51 101-300 $13.30 $26.63 301-500 $27.76 $55.52 Over 500 $39.33 $78.66 *All rates are …
  • Immigration Regulations, Order-in Council PC 1967-1616, 1967
    … According to the new provisions, independent immigrants were assigned points in specific categories relating to their ability to successfully … officials. [1] Based on the recommendations of the task force, a points system was established in which potential immigrants were given … opportunities in their area of destination. Individuals receiving 50 points or more out of a possible 100 would be admitted as independent …

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