• Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … [1] Introduction: The Great Depression and Canadian Nativism In the 1930s, Canadians experienced a profound economic recession complicated … like Rev. Williston’s were widespread in Canada during the early 1930s, when about one-quarter of the Canadian labour force was … family of Canadian residents. The result was dramatic. In the 1930s, an average of about 16,000 immigrants entered Canada per year , …
  • Berthold Herman Seiler
    … with their sack full of banknotes to buy anything they could at any price. In their frenzy, they paid millions of marks for cuckoo clocks, shoes that didn't fit, and so on. The price of a cup of coffee would double in the time it took to drink it. Dad told us … unsold western grain constituted one of the severest problems of the day. Conditions worsened, including economic confusion and unemployment …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … on a regular basis. They were always looking for people between 18 and 45 years of age to send to the labour camps in Germany. Also gold, … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …
  • Cookbooks, Cultural Connections, And Migration
    … Square’s last department store. And we bought pots and pans. Since she realized I hadn’t cooked before, we bought a cookbook called The I … a TV dinner, which I stuck in the oven. And it wasn’t very tasty. When she found out, she says, “You can’t afford to buy that stuff. It’s too expensive. You’re going to …
  • Kurt and Rolf Maurer
    … My brother, Rolf, and I left from Antwerp on April 20, 1952 in the SS Leerdam, 8,854 GRT, her last port of call in Europe, and after a … was what we had officially on arrival. On landing in Halifax on May 1st, we had some time between Immigration formalities and the evening … amidst more modern buildings, and dropped in just to look. The price had gone up since 1952 to $25 - sharing a bathroom, and for $5 …
  • Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1971
    … In a statement to the House of Commons on 8 October 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced … society. The policy of multiculturalism was implemented based on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. The commission was …
  • Dad's Story (English)
    … in advance, it is still a parting, and in time, to part is also to die a little. It is only then that you feel the loss of the loved ones … to us, one from our friends the Venters and one from family. When you can’t say it with words, you say it with flowers. We will never forget … A guy quickly came around to spread sand. After such an exhausting day we decided just to go to bed early. First we bathed, then said our …
  • Cristoforo Colombo by Bruno
    … So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … I’ll see papà again … …
  • The Forgotten Immigrants: The Journey of the New England Planters to Nova Scotia, 1759-1768
    … The migration of the New England Planters was the first significant migration to the Atlantic colonies in British North America. In … to settle in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, and in the Upper St. John River Valley of present-day New Brunswick, between 1759 and 1768. They left a legacy that can …
  • Tonellato Angelo, Rosa, Attilio, Ido
    … Our trip commenced on the afternoon on a pleasant spring day March 2nd,1954. We were transported from our home in Trevignano by … situation. The following day March 4, 1954 was a clear but windy day. We made our way to the docks where we were processed by the … odor of the diesel motors from which one could not escape. To this day, for me the diesel smell will trigger the same feeling of sickness …