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  • Jamaican Nova Scotian Connections: From the Maroons to the Present Day
    … the migration of the Maroons in the 18th century until the present day. Community Presents A partnership program sharing the unique … Jamaican Nova Scotian Connections: From the Maroons to the Present Day …
  • Perfect Pairings Lobster Dip with Ka’ak Al-Quds
    … food traditions.  This unique recipe was a collaboration between Comfort Foodies owner Keisha Carter and Ghada Shuli, founder of Chef Mama G, … temperature. Mix the Levain: In a medium bowl, mix the Levain ingredients until well incorporated. Transfer to clean container with a lid, …
  • Mennonites and Canadian Accommodation
    … a decade of military reform, and in particular the growing threat of compulsory military service. [3] In that environment, it is … agreement of the Canadian federal government to accept the Mennonite community according to these provisions, but it also was a signal of … registration, an apparent avoidance tactic. After the First World War, communal pacifist religious groups such as Mennonites were targeted by …
  • Sietske Flietstra Bellsmith
    … my brothers, sisters and I were told we were moving to a place called Canada and would live on a huge ship for about nine days to get there. Wow! From that moment on, what had been ‘normal’ … that, and don’t remember ever getting punished for my behaviour that day. Most unusual! By the time the nine-day trip was up my brother and …
  • Reginald W. and Dorothy E. Haines
    … (Miller). Reginald and Dorothy Married January 1, 1935. In the early days of their marriage, Dorothy worked as a nurse's aid, and Reginald … from England. The train travelled in a westerly direction along the St. Lawrence where large white blocks six feet or more square by three … with a tap. It would take ten minutes to get two sips from a paper cup. The next morning the train was in New Brunswick, and everyone was …
  • Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration, 1885
    … country. Approximately 15,000 Chinese labourers came to Canada in the 1880s to work on the western section of the Canadian Pacific Railway in …
  • "Might Be the Best of the Lot": Baltic Refugees, Canadian Immigration Policy and the Arrival of SS Walnut
    … considered many factors in determining whether an individual was ‘admissible’ and would be granted entry to Canada. The arrival in Canada of SS Walnut from Sweden in December 1948, illustrated that admitting and processing newcomers to Canada remained largely influenced by several … Lot": Baltic Refugees, Canadian Immigration Policy and the Arrival of SS Walnut …
  • Heterosexism in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1952-1978
    … research. I use “queer” occasionally as shorthand for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, very advisedly: I am reminded that many of my friends would … Fortier entitled “A Review of Immigration from the British West Indies.” The memo states that “it has long been the policy of this … trigger ostracization, and end a career . In 1964, a civil servant died of a heart attack during RCMP interrogation about his sexuality, …
  • John Vanderlaan
    … promote emigration. Countries preferred by many emigrants were Canada, the U.S.A., New Zealand and South Africa. I had several reasons … Bert had immigrated to Canada to find a future in farming, an occupation that offered preferential treatment to would be immigrants. … After the war we saw little of each other. Meeting again we had a chance to get reacquainted. Because of him, I had the opportunity to …
  • Phyllis Danroth
    … as Phyllis Irene West. Her parents were Robert and Beatrice West. She had 5 brothers and 4 sisters. She was particularly close to her … the High Church of England, where she would go to church every Wednesday and twice on Sundays. After finishing school at age 16, she went to …

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