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… and want to tell you the story of our journey. Most of my recollection comes from my mother. It's fascinating to listen to her stories. On … realized how big Canada was. Travelling two days plus and still being in the same country! My dad asked the conductor for a beer and he … by trade and did also find work shortly thereafter. I remember him buying three rooms of furniture from 'Bad Boys' for a dollar down a …
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… Transcript Screen Text SETTING THE TABLE: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities Screen text with audio I was born in the countryside…in the … and Community Screen text with audio (EB) MEMORY Food “is much more for us than a necessity of our physical being: it defines who we are … Setting The Table: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities …
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… Ontario. It was good that I did not understand too much English, but I can remember him using the term "S.O.B." directed at me. So I was … good and I threw it out the window. This left us to eat dry bread and washed down with coke cola. Another thing I will never forget is when … from the Dutch army and didn’t like civilian life in Holland and was ready for an adventure. My Dad and my Uncle were talking about starting …
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… Rafael Alcolado performs at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada … world changed radically . As Fidel’s government veered towards communism, many professionals fled. Some estimate that 50% of Cuba’s … Salas in Santiago de Cuba. In 1966, aged 19, he played in a music competition in Havana. “I was lucky that there were 2 famous pianists …
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… Rafael Alcolado performs at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada … world changed radically . As Fidel’s government veered towards communism, many professionals fled. Some estimate that 50% of Cuba’s … Salas in Santiago de Cuba. In 1966, aged 19, he played in a music competition in Havana. “I was lucky that there were 2 famous pianists …
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… my wife and I and our 11- mouth old daughter arrived in Quebec City, Canada. We decided to leave our homeland of the Netherlands for a … the move for a better life.” (Simon Grin, 1948) “Although I was only four years old at the time, I can distinctly remember the kist seated … limited. So we talked about leaving Holland. Two destinations were being considered: Canada and Australia. Henk Knol wrote and told us the …
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… 0:00:53 Transcript: One of the larger objects in our exhibition Refuge Canada is this rigid inflatable boat. It represents some of the most … contemplate the dangers of those voyages. A boat like this, which is being used today in the GNC by refugees trying to move from Turkey to … invariably overload them with 18 to 20 people. Sitting here you can just imagine the dangers of a trip like that with adults clinging …
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… My parents, Fokke (Frank) and Homiena van der Veen, arrived in Canada on October 23, 1953 on the Groote Beer at Pier 21 from The … Ina nearly 2 years of age. Unlike many immigrants my parents decide to come to Canada not from economic need, but because my father wanted to farm and as the owner of a grocery store in Laren, Gelderland, he would …
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… USA, he searched for Ewa and the children. Ewa had survived the war being homeless most of the time. She managed to feed her family and … him her maiden name Kurdziel, which he later changed to Kurdzer. One can only imagine how hard life must have been for her, not knowing if … had opened its gates. They all sold their land and made plans to come to Canada. On October 20, 1926 in Lasocin, Poland, a certificate …
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… were seeing the piano tied down so it would not move around and not being allowed out on deck because of the bad weather. We were all … later I was to discover we sailed across on the tail end of a hurricane. One of my first memories in landing in Halifax and leaving the … in Florida. My husband and I were married in 1959, have three sons, four grandchildren and this year celebrated our 50th wedding …