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… We provide in-person research services for people who are able to visit the Museum. Our staff use a variety of internal and external … immigration records, manifests and passenger lists . Research we can help with: Someone arrived between 1865 and 1935 The Scotiabank … Family History Centre has access to a variety of databases which can aid in the location of records from this era. Someone sailing from …
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… + HST per person Experience must be booked in advance. Workshops can accommodate up to 30 participants. Groups may also book additional dates, subject to availability (minimum of 8). Visit Tribal Fusion Art for full event information. Register to attend … through a unique experience offered in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. This special package …
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… here to Canada, because my daughter was already here. I thought that coming as a family was the right thing to do. Olena Stepanova, … When I graduated from university, I had my daughter. And before I move to Canada I work in accounting almost 12 years. So, I have … do what I wanted to do. At the same time, then I guess my mum came to visit me for the summer, and then I guess that's where the plan started …
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… hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to travel to Canada on the Vulcania on April 1, 1955 departing from the Port of … Umberto of Savoia, during World War II and he must have told him to visit whenever he is in town. Well, we were in town but the Prince was … of 600,000 liras for the six of us. My parents, at that time, had four children. We occupied two rooms on either the third or fourth …
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… I go out together to join my sister who had gone just a few months before. We could get established, then send for the rest of the family. I … at Westinghouse where he worked in Hamilton. Given that my purpose in coming to Canada was to financially help my parents, I had thought it … income both to support my parents for their whole lives, as well as to visit them often. Canada has been very good to me. Return to Victoria …
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… on our family. I was refused admission to non-Jewish schools and so my education ended at age sixteen. I worked as a tutor to two young … and from there I boarded a train for Montreal. I always remembered my joy and trepidation at arriving in Montreal knowing that I was leaving … from leaving the US for five years but my brother, David, came to visit me once. It was a happy occasion when I was reunited with my …
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… the hidden history. The story became real, when my parents came to visit me in Vancouver, and my Dad insisted on visiting the old family … when my Dad died. It was difficult to talk about preparations for my Dad’s funeral, and in the end my Mum opted for a Christian … my Dad was a Buddhist. Mum had a stroke in 2005, as a result of complications after some dental surgery. I kept thinking if only I had …
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… and I sang together with brothers and nephews. In Uganda, we were competing with many musicians, and because we were not from there, and … medication, finding the medical centres and being able to reach them for support, it was all not easy. My hope was gone. I feared I was … same way. I became more concerned on other people’s lives. I started visiting people in different areas such as hospitals, homes, camps and …
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… But as I grew up I began to doubt if true love really does last forever. When my brother and I were young we were all attached at the … we were invited too. My mom was very involved with the Filipino community, so my dad would take us to support the events and … trips to Poland my dad would take my brother and I on every 5 years to visit his side of the family. Knowing that my brother and I didn’t know …
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On February 28, 1928 the Holland America line steam ship Nieuw Amsterdam departed from Rotterdam, Netherlands and was the first ship to arrive at Pier 21 on March 8, 1928. There were only 54 people disembarking at Pier 21 on that day and included passengers from Holland, Lithuania, Germany, …