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  • Artist-in-Residence 2024 - Annie Valentina
    … It was our great pleasure to host Annie Valentina as our playwright-in-residence summer/fall 2025. Annie … called Od Dzvezdena Prašina (From Stardust) , which she describes as "an exploration of multi-generational immigrant family dynamics" told … its third draft and in continued development. From left: Loren Baldwin (as Bowie), Riley Reign (as Cass), Stephanie MacDonald (as Zoe), Mary …
  • Kokelj,Pavel,Ana,Milka,Franc,Marija
    Kokelj,Pavel,Ana,Milka,Franc,Marija …
  • Angelo Rose Joe Rose Anna Vernucci
    … Angelo Rose Joe Rose Anna Vernucci …
  • From Banker to Culturepreneur—an Ode to Joy
    … made-up word,” she says, “How I've labelled myself is inconsequential compared to what I am doing.” “The events offer the musicians financial … no place that we don't belong, because we have achieved so much.” For one show, she approached four young classical musicians and invited … Julian Taylor. Celebrations and Revelations On February 6, 2026, Taylor returns to the Museum , sharing the bill with beloved local …
  • Hein Lies Mia Cisca Willem vd Maden
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  • Canadian Immigration Acts and Legislation
    … What do immigration rules tell us about Canada? Since 1869, Canada has had laws and regulations governing the admission of immigrants. Immigration legislation has evolved and changed over time, shaped by the shifting social, … still in place. Since Canada’s adoption of multiculturalism as an official policy in 1971, the cultural diversity of Canadian immigrants …
  • Gunner Roy F. Ludwig
    … made to children in 1994: ‘I am very honoured to speak to you on this Remembrance Day because, you see, I do remember… In September, when you were starting back at school I was on a very special trip to … F. Ludwig was my father. World War II started in 1939. My sister was one, I was three and my brother was six. My father joined the army in …
  • To Canada and Back Again: Immigration from the United States on the Underground Railroad (1840-1860)
    … by Western University's MA Public History Program Students Fugitive or Free? Prior to 1850, fugitive slaves who escaped from the southern United States to the northern states were considered to be free. However, after the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the … Once crossing into Upper Canada, all men, women, and children, were free. [2] Artist Theodore Kaufmann condemned the 1850 Fugitive Slave …
  • Arie Dirk Bestebreurtje
    … Arie Dirk Bestebreurtje, born April, 1916 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Father, Anton D. Bestebreurtje moved the family to … family left Switzerland, and made it to England via Portugal. Anton, his wife, and their three daughters, continued on to New York. Arie and …
  • Meta Echt and Marianne Ferguson
    … "There are things of which I may not speak, There are dreams that cannot … heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye." These words from Longfellow's poem "My Lost Youth" have perhaps … and hatred, people have dreams of freedom and liberty, which, may come true to some of them but may not come to others. We had our dreams …

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