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  • How a Chicken Pox Quarantine Brought one Family to Canada
    … would have lost Margarita Bruehler nee Sosnowsky to Paraguay if her brother hadn’t come down with the chickenpox. Margarita’s early childhood memories are … canned food, clothing, coffee, even chocolate. Via the Red Cross my mother was able to locate an aunt living in Chilliwack, B.C. “The … How a Chicken Pox Quarantine Brought one Family to Canada …
  • Memories of Home by Pawknyaw
    … Time 0:02:28 Transcript I called Thailand refugee camp  a home  because I was born there. It wasn’t … camp, because Piobolu was burned. I remember the day I found out I was coming to Canada. I didn’t know what to think. My dad thought coming to … was all so different from the school in Thailand refugee. I didn’t understand anything they were talking about, and if I think someone was …
  • Tarcisio Filippelli
    … The Immigration Story of Tarcisio Filippelli (Italian Immigrant) … HISTORY of a JOURNEY I was actually born on December 31st, 1953, but my birth certificate reads January 1st, 1954, in Mendicino in the … for a better life for his family, my grandfather, Antonio Conte (my mother’s father), worked and travelled to various countries before …
  • Katrina Ewanishan Yurko
    … "Kay: A Story 85 Years in the Making" I always wondered what would be the one word to best describe my mother. It was a challenge to put it mildly, but the only one that … about her personality, cooking and even her golf game was her own. (The sentiment is sincere. I'm seriously not bucking for a "daughter of …
  • Who is that giant bear?
    … Fenton poses with a family during the Museum’s Canada Day celebrations. Visitors to Canada Day and other special celebrations at … the big bear a hug, pose for a picture or simply stand there in wonder, looking up at the smiling face. Meet Fenton Fenton is the mascot … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story …
  • Who is that giant bear?
    … Fenton poses with a family during the Museum’s Canada Day celebrations. Visitors to Canada Day and other special celebrations at … the big bear a hug, pose for a picture or simply stand there in wonder, looking up at the smiling face. Meet Fenton Fenton is the mascot … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story …
  • Giulio Cesare and Gabriela Maria Alessandroni
    … the Alessandroni Family had landed at Pier 21, Halifax. There they set foot to a new adventure, a new chapter of a family full of love, faith and hope. But unlike most immigrants, my family had not left to find the land of plenty. Rather, they had … Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2013.1773.1] My mother Gabriela was the daughter of a well-to-do landowner. Through …
  • Salzburg with Aunt Olga and Uncle Joseph - Peter Duschinsky
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:50 Transcript Yeah, so, I left. I was with uh, … And, of course in the Revolution, the ruins were all over, you know—dead animals in the streets uh, wires etcetera hanging down. And there, … uncle, Olga Weisz (Duschinsky) & Joseph Weisz taken in Montreal, 1963. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2017.140.3] …
  • Artist-in-Residence 2022 - Tamara Abdul Hadi
    … of Art and Design in Vancouver and has taught photography for multimedia at Concordia and photography intervention courses in Cairo and … was a collective of 6 women photographers from and working in SWANA (South West Asian, North African Region). For her residency, Abdul Hadi … for dignity, respect, and justice. Tamara wrote, “Through this work, I want to amplify these people’s humanity first and foremost. I believe a …
  • Bargenda Family
    … My name is Ursula Bargenda. I was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. My … fortunate to find a job which meant that he would leave Berlin on Monday, return on Friday, repair the truck on Saturday, have a day off on … because of his trade and left Berlin in 1955 arriving in Quebec City on June 20th. He travelled to Toronto and stayed on a temporary …

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