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… Forbundet af Danske Foreninger i Canada Federation of Danish Associations in … Forbundet af Danske Foreninger i Canada • Federation of Danish Associations in …
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… relieved by Amin’s seizure of power since Obote’s socialist government had planned to take a 60 percent stake in the country’s Asian-owned … businesses. [1] On 4 August 1972, President of Uganda, Idi Amin, ordered the expulsion of the country’s Asian population. Claiming that he had received an order from God, Amin gave Ugandans of Asian heritage ninety days to leave the …
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… that supplied healthy food all year around plus raising chickens and goats. Then war erupted and he could not find leather and other … you there to give you a job they have business there, to help us out but I am afraid you are too young". John got exited and said "Dad I am not young any more I am 16 already". On …
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… 1951 was the first year Germans were allowed to emmigrate to Canada. It was only six years after the war, and the situation in Germany … why many Germans tried to emigrate and find a new and better life somewhere else. We were among the first German families to settle in … and depressed by bad news, confused by so many new impressions and without much knowledge of , we started out on our own to look for shelter …
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… born, Prairie bred, thanks to my grandparents, Charles and Emily Haigh, for immigrating to Canada. Charles Haigh departed from … never knew. I have always said, "the prairies separate men from boys". How tall he stands in my eyes! Emily Haigh, along with their children, … Charles and Emily Haigh …
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… I was in Times Square, New York. I saw the declaration of war spelt out on the moving letters on the top of the clock. I should have been … this was the trip of a lifetime, my first bit of independence and the chance to study art in summer school in this huge cosmopolitan city. I … felt the British could get on without me for another three weeks, and so I stayed. What I do remember with warmth was the fact that everybody …
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… Leaving the United States Time 0:01:30 Transcript And I had come from a family where my father had been …
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… Friuli Venezia-Giulia. I landed at Pier 21. The documentation was in order. I boarded the train on route to Toronto. Little did I know this … to the Canadian government. My mother bought me a suit and pajamas. I had to make sure that I had $120 in a traveller’s cheque, and $30 in cash. On July 8th, I boarded the boat “Roma” in Genoa. My sister …
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… Like many around us, my family was poor. Many children didn’t go to school. I went to school until grade 3, however was not able to … help in the fields. In addition to the labour of his six daughters, he had to employ men as he did not have any sons to do the heavier chores. As children, we carried out the same work as the adults. In the summers, we would wake up early …