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… Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter. Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
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… Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter. Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
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… was born at home in North London in 1923. Her siblings included one sister, Lily, and four brothers: Jim, Len, Charlie and Jack. In … Ministry of Defense as a secretary. Joan’s story may have ended here. One evening, Joan finished work late and missed her regular bus home by …
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… Québec May, 1922 and served as an infantry soldier in Les Fusiliers Mont Royal. Date of enlistment: January, 1943. Date of discharge from the army: August 27, 1945. He disembarked at Juno Beach two weeks after …
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… We had only one room to live in, in Villach Austria. Our two houses were destroyed … from Communist Yugoslavia. We decided to apply in Tireste, Italy (free territory) for our immigration to Canada. I was pregnant. There … 1951 we went on an immigration train to Lesum, Bremerhaven Germany (refugee camp). My husband boarded the Fairsea right away and …
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… Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether … on promises their predecessors had made to first attract settlers. This was also during the time when both Canada and the US had enacted Homestead Acts offering land to any settlers willing to live and make improvements on the land. This …
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… Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether … on promises their predecessors had made to first attract settlers. This was also during the time when both Canada and the US had enacted Homestead Acts offering land to any settlers willing to live and make improvements on the land. This …
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… for safekeeping. Travelling by peasant’s carts, by trucks and by commandeered barge through the war-torn countryside of Poland, the … of 4 July 1940, the collection and its caretakers sailed with the Free Polish Ship Batory in a convoy that included Monarch of Bermuda, … [6] Arrival in Canada This convoy crossing of early July 1940 might be one of the most remarkable of the war : the priceless Polish treasures …
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… (Haider) I am Nicholas , Brigitta’s other half - in marriage, that is…and I thought that one of the brief stories she told me about some events that preceded … years of age, travelling alone, with very little cash and without any knowledge of the English language. For many newcomers the …
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… three things: Thank You, Good Luck, and Goodbye. J.O.M.A. 1949-2012 History: Born in Copenhagen Denmark on April 22, 1949, John Oscar was … of immigrants as they arrived in Canada, of the vital role immigration has played in the building of Canada and of the contributions of … Today, Oscar and his story shares a rightful place in the museum on one of it's virtual wall bricks. Oscar's other brothers are ; Martin …