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eat make share recipes Explore recipes → Soft Landing Seven bite-sized stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the places they landed-people who changed their communities and were changed themselves. Explore the gallery → Countless Journeys Podcast Listen in on these original …
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… Che bella la Casetta in Canada – What A Beautiful Little House in Canada I remember singing as a child a popular tune that went like this: “C’erà una casetta piccolina in Canada, con tanti pesciolini et tanti fiori di lilà, e tutte le ragazze che …
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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 … wanted to go to the United States as several of his relatives of an earlier generation had gone to the Denver area via Ellis Island, but he …
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… England everyone was still on rationing. Edna couldn’t resist buying a pair of very fine nylons that she couldn’t get in England. She would have liked more but after paying 40 pounds each boat fare and 26 pounds each train fare, we had very little money to spare for … past Victoria and into the Inner Harbour. We made the decision to come to Canada because there were so few career opportunities in the …
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… and quarantined when they arrived at Pier 21, but the Haddad family still felt blessed. The Christian Palestinian refugees had already fled to … still hoped to return to her home one day, her family decided to come to Canada in June 1955. “…one was in Montreal, and the others were … be separated like that. Neither my mother wouldn’t let me either. She said that’s not the right way to do it. So anyway, that’s how we …
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… an uncontrollable mob, targeting Chinese and Japanese residents of the city and destroying their personal property. [3] Following the …
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… Act in 1908, prohibiting the landing of any immigrant that did not come to Canada by continuous journey from the country of which they … of people began to terrorize Chinese and Japanese residents of the city and destroy their property. [1] Following the Vancouver Riot, the …
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… in February 1925 in Port Elgin, New Brunswick, enrolled for wartime military service in March 1941 at the age of sixteen years and one month. … his service as part of the Core and Supply Troop (Blue Patch), 4th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. In … Clyde to Greenock where they debarked. They later traveled by train to south England where they were housed in old World War I military …
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… in specific categories relating to their ability to successfully settle in Canada. Criticisms of the 1966 White Paper on Immigration … established in which potential immigrants were given a score up to a set maximum in the following nine categories: education and training; …
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… to 150 percent above cost. [2] Cordasco induced Italian labourers to come to Canada by taking out advertisements in Italian-Canadian … employment. In his final report, Judge Winchester recommended that the city of Montreal pass a by-law requiring immigration agents and offices …