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Time 0:03:37 Transcript My darling "Ify bay... bay ", It is said that everyone has a story: How true! My immigration story is not complete without you! it is already 365 days since you left us. My heart is still heavy I feel so hurt, without you things are not the same, I just can't get over it! I …
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… and sprinkling sugar on top... yum, it was good. The next morning we boarded another train, which was beautiful, and we arrived in Orillia on April 1, 1953 on a lovely sunny day. Orillia …
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Time 0:04:41 Transcript I ended up being a refugee for 10 years in the republic of Benin as a result of what happened to me in Ogoni from the government of Nigeria. I am ever a disciple of Ken Saro Wiwa, a leader of the people of Ogoni. While alive, he spoke about the environmental degradation …
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… All Aboard - On The Train “In this special train for immigrants, the passengers sat, ate, and often slept on wooden benches. At regular intervals along the way the train would stop, allowing the crew to take on coal and water … and therefore prepared sandwiches for all of their meals along the way.” (Kenneth Robert Vandenberg, 1953) “Thanks to a word of advice …
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… sent of to a small country school. Not speaking one work of English, we arrived with lunch pail in hand, children gathering around us , … to the Netherlands. They had every intention of saving enough money to buy a truck, loading our kist on the back of it, and heading for …
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Time 0:04:22 Transcript When people ask me about my immigration story, the first picture that comes into my mind is the snowstorm. It was January 2010, my first trip to New Brunswick — I had just finished my immigration interview in Fredericton when I learned my bus to Moncton was cancelled because …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 4, 2020) Origins: From a “Mosaic” to Multiculturalism Before multiculturalism became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be traced back to the early interwar period. …
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Time 0:03:42 Transcript There was nothing to do in Arnes so when I finished grade 11, I went to Winnipeg and I stayed with my best friend Mary Daniels family. Ruth, Mary’s mother, was a war bride and she took me round all over to find a job but nobody had any openings. When we were just about home …
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… Story of Trijn Steenbergen Lopers Frits Lopers and Trijn Steenbergen were born and grew up in Koekange, a small town not far from Meppel in … and he had a house for us. Two families from our village Koekange, (B. Flinkert and A. Rumph) were already in that area and they helped …