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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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… Immigration Story of a 9 Year Old Boy in 1952 The best memory I have of coming to Canada and Pier 21 is … uncle living near Halifax. They came by bus to Pier 21 to greet us. However when we landed at Pier 21 in the late afternoon, we had to wait …
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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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… Children January 22, 1952 - Zuiderkruis After a tearful good-bye to friends and neighbors in our little hometown of Ens in the … piled into a rented car which would bring us to Rotterdam. There we were to board the ship that would take us to our new country – …
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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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… Salén, which was to sail for Halifax on the 16th. In the movie theatre we listened to a talk about our voyage, presented by the 2nd Escort … Marriage Swindler) which was 20 years old and really not a very good way to say goodbye to German films. The sound was impossible. This was …
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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 … building; we could hear someone crying all the time, and that was our boy. It was hard to hear him and not go to him. One time we followed …
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… The following is the story of the Koster family. Why and how they came to Canada … visiting from Canada, that there was lots of land there and easy to buy. So that was where they wanted to go. When they went to The Hague for their medical examination and interview, the …