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  • The Eric and Margaret Moody
    … duty between the UK and Halifax and spent a period of rest at the Cup Camp on Miller's Island - little realizing that our son would …
  • Dmitro, Anna Orleski and Family
    … brother-in-law Wasyl Mandryk who was required to provide lodging at $45.00/month wage for one year. In 1925 the family moved to a farm near … the help of family and friends a two room log house and log chicken coop were built. The roof was thatched with straw. In 1929 son Michail …
  • The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … the passengers and cargo of large ocean liners, and so could also accommodate the same vessels as troopships. With the outbreak of war in … during the Depression. [4] Until significant movements of soldier dependents began in 1944, the majority of immigrants were citizens … during and just after the war were the dependents of Canadian soldiers. This group included women married to Canadians abroad during the …
  • Moving Around by Youmei
    … I was able to choose what I was really interested in. I had studied physics before, but when I focused on the new field of the … was active in different universities, museums, libraries, schools, and community centers. I was like a sponge taking in everything that I was … a new door for myself. I took English classes, and volunteered in the community. Two years later, I started my first and my only job in …
  • They Lived Next Door to a Dictator
    … many as 500,000 people. In 1969, two years before seizing power in a coup d’état, Amin was commander of the country’s armed forces. Usha and …
  • Cres Pascucci
    … have touched you more. I remember that first kiss in Corner Brooke. I can still taste it today so sweet so giving so wonderful. I remember … a Sobey’s bag. I remember your red nose in Winnipeg at the 1991 Grey Cup. You would have given Rudolph a run for the money. It was only 20 … Allen Boyd…. you are beautiful. And now is the time to say goodbye but con te partiro, you will live with me in my mind and in my heart. Con …
  • They Lived Next Door to a Dictator
    … many as 500,000 people. In 1969, two years before seizing power in a coup d’état, Amin was commander of the country’s armed forces. Usha and …
  • Kinship, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Canadian Immigration History
    … delivered the “sheep-skin coat” quote in 1922, by which time he had become rather more aligned with Conservative politics, and with it, he is … marriage and child birth seems to have had some success, with studies indicating millions of traceable modern descendants, representing … racialized British subjects , such as those from the British West Indies or from India were treated very differently from their white …
  • Milan V. Gregor
    … I was born January 29, 1931 in Czechoslovakia. After the 1948 communist coup d'etat I escaped in 1949 to Germany where I worked as a bookkeeper … had to empty his pockets and place the contents on that table. Then he/she had to open the luggage. When I opened the trunk, I froze, because … Canadian bread. Today I like it, but only as a breakfast toast with jam. But considering the sheer number of immigrants Pier 21 had to …
  • Refugee: a Hero or Zero? by Sharmarke
    Time 0:03:43 Transcript May 2012 was when I heard the news. I had to wrap up my last 10 years in 10 days. I was going moving again, but this time it was different. When I was 8 years old, my mother took me in the moonlight down to the harbour in Kismayo. She put me on a boat, knowing that many …

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