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… co-operate by putting in my nickel's worth as to ‘how, why, and what for' I wanted to come to Canada. I worked for my father as a Market Gardener for eleven … and England, but I could not get the satisfaction I was looking for. I remembered that after the war was over, the Canadians were …
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… 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. Against the backdrop … Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972 …
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… The following are edited sections of Susan Stein’s memoir. They pertain … Bratislava, then part of Czechoslovakia, a republic founded after WW I, we were the dear twin daughters of doting parents. Our house, up on … neck and refusing to eat spinach or other food supposedly good for you. We were treated as little princesses, with dresses made by a …
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… that by 1851, the Irish Catholic population in British North America (i.e. United Province of Canada (Canada West and Canada East), Nova …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 20, 2020) Introduction For centuries, child orphans have sought permanent resettlement in … and provide testimony to a federal immigration official that he or she is a minor. Otherwise, within Canadian immigration policy, … travel document. Named after the League’s first High Commissioner for Refugees, Fridtjof Nansen, the passport served as a travel …
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… was the time of long lineup[s] to buy anything…I remember…I went to visit my mom…it was September 11, 1973. Everything changed. Everything … Refugee Chilean Professionals and Students, Professor Lionel Vallée visited Chile on a fact-finding mission to assess the local conditions …
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… Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Pier 21 was built as one of four adjoining waterfront sheds, the key transit areas of Halifax’s … system, hotel and rail station, rail car maintenance shed, the four waterfront sheds and an annex building for the government … the “Guest Children”, the movement was short-lived as after about four thousand children were transported to Canada on British public …
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… Historian (Updated January 13, 2022) “I think a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with … up at Hamburg to emigrate he might find one escaped murderer, three or four wasters and ne’er-do-wells, some very poor shop-keepers, artisans …
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… Milanese was born in October 1936, in San Lorenzo di Fumicello, in the province of Udine, in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region, in northeast Italy. She is the second child of four of Romolo Milanese and Anna Pasqualini. A month after Ariella was … to grade 6. She was ultimately given permission but had to take a bike ride there and back, over an hour away, as it was the only place nearby …
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… Families 1956 We huddled each night around our radios giving us the news from Budapest. I saw five pointed stars in our town square, … in the fighting escalated. Each night we had our clothes by our bed ready to flee if they were to bomb our part of the town. The borders …