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… including Canada's record on inclusion and exclusion. Browse a compelling oral collection of immigrant stories and histories. Share how you … Gallery Recorded audio and video interviews in this gallery capture living memories and preserve them for future generations. Clips are 30 seconds to almost three minutes long, so you could spend as …
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… on June 12, 1955 on the Queen Frederica. I followed my father, who had come to Canada in 1952 because of the poor economic conditions at home. The trip for me was very dramatic. The day that I boarded the ship on June 4, 1955, was a very sad one. My mother and one of my aunts accompanied me and my older …
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… Joyce Emily Sherwood nee Callow with tributes by her sister Gwen Milton and her … to go home. We wrote to each other, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes. I left England on Friday, April 3, 1947 aboard the S.S. … Joyce Emily Callow Sherwood …
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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:50 Transcript Yeah, so, I left. I was with uh, my Aunt Olga and my Uncle Joseph in Austria. … uncle, Olga Weisz (Duschinsky) & Joseph Weisz taken in Montreal, 1963. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2017.140.3] … Salzburg with Aunt Olga and Uncle Joseph - Peter Duschinsky …
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… Our journey to Canada began with a dream of opportunity and space to raise a large … 21, 1956 a bus arrived to pick us up. The entire street showed up to say goodbye, with hankies waving and tears flowing, as we left to begin … twin boys that had to be plucked off the ship's railings. After a few hair raising incidents a daycare was finally opened. Of course there …
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… New Brunswick, enrolled for wartime military service in March 1941 at the age of sixteen years and one month. He served for four and one-half … 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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… Rolled down the gangplank in baby’s ancient carriage. Helpful hands pushed us onwards to the railroad station Into the Traveller’s Aid office … In this sooty place they were like a promise of spring. Mother said that they were much too old and expensive for me; I did not agree … Uta Maria Heine Sonier …
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… that this is (claps) where you’re going to be for the next little while, right. There’s no turning back so might as well make the best … for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … company. Tony’s family decided to immigrate to Canada after his father passed away in 1979. Tony’s older brother and sister had already …
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… The Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Immigration of … 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 …
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… a new immigration act, this policy was introduced as a separate set of regulations. New regulations could be implemented quickly by the authority of cabinet whereas acts had to pass through various stages of approval in Parliament. By drafting …