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… then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … to do something to cheer myself up. I enrolled an English Class in the community center near to us. I became a student when I was 65 years … something for the society. I like to be a volunteer to pay back to the community. Every spring, we plant trees. In 2013, we knitted many …
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… to family still left behind how good life was saying ‘you should come!’. In 1950 my Mom and her family, having not much to look forward to in Germany as it was then, decided to come to Canada. My Mom’s family were sponsored to come to Canada as … for one year. My Mom committed to paying back the Lutheran Relief $265. I was astonished when I discovered the original promisory note in …
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Time 0:03:59 Transcript I was born in Trinidad my mother died in childbirth and I was told I was the child. My grandmother Vernie came to Trinidad and took myself and my sister back to St Vincent & the Grenadines. Growing up on a coconut plantation on St Vincent I experience all form of abuse, …
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… never returning. Then, in the spring of 1945, the liberators came: CANADIANS .They rolled in to my village on big tanks looking well fed … and an end to the war. I was then 18 years old. After a few weeks the Canadians settled in and became friends of the Dutch. I met my Canadian … out of the village in November 1945. I then had to wait for my turn to come to Canada. I left Holland in August, 1946 after a lot of waiting …
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… + HST per person Experience must be booked in advance. Workshops can accommodate up to 30 participants. Groups may also book additional … through a unique experience offered in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. This special package …
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… they had done what was wanted. We were all thrilled one day when Wing Commander Whittle came to have his rocket tested - it was a forerunner …
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… Sometimes I go to visit – I tell people I am going home. But when I am coming back to Canada, I tell people I am going home. So where is home? …
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… Pier 21 and an historic moment at what would become the gateway to Canada for nearly one million immigrants over the next 43 years. One of … Family History Centre is the Museum’s research centre where visitors can have assistance tracing their family history and immigration … A History by Steven Schwinghamer and Jan Raska, co-published by the Canadian Museum of History, the Canadian Museum of Immigration, and the …
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… hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to travel to Canada on the Vulcania on April 1, 1955 departing from the Port of Naples. Well, our … stops during our journey. Our first stop was in Palermo, then Genoa, Cannes, Barcelona, Gibraltar, Casablanca, Lisbon and then Halifax. This …
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