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… thing is you’re open-minded, okay. Uh you have to look at Canada do welcome you, okay. You have to come, again, not thinking what you had, what you going to have: always … give advice to them is that, don’t be choosy about your job. Take what come along because you never think—know what it take you to next step. …
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… from French) YM : Yes (laughs), yes. Every time—the biggest file to complete is the permanent residency. There’s a medical section too: you … services; I had to go to the US to do the “tour de poteau,” then come back. So I could have taken the opportunity to go to see my family … to university in Bordeaux, France where she received two degrees in communications. She moved to Paris for work and stayed there for four …
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… MacKinnon captures something felt by many- the feeling of being welcomed in Canada – the feeling that the country represented a chance at … above where passengers disembarked, were written the words “Welcome Home to Canada.” The Welcome Home to Canada sign, visible from the deck of a ship as it arrives …
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… MacKinnon captures something felt by many- the feeling of being welcomed in Canada – the feeling that the country represented a chance at … above where passengers disembarked, were written the words “Welcome Home to Canada.” The Welcome Home to Canada sign, visible from the deck of a ship as it arrives …
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… Raymond, with two members of the Rainbow Community Garden. Contributed by Raymond Ngarboui Raymond Ngarboui … how immigration is shaping Canadian cuisine , and how food connects newcomers to their heritage, adapts to new tastes, and builds new communities. A Hunger for Home Born in Chad and raised during the …
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… Our journey to Canada began with a dream of opportunity and space to raise a large … the youngest were not. Our journey was not without incident, as you can imagine with six children. For example, we had four year old twin … we entered a large hall where we were greeted by Red Cross Volunteers, Canadian officials and Dutch representatives. We were all given samples …
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… For years after 1918 there was tremendous advertising to immigrate to Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Various government … work in Canada. My father agreed to let my brother, Sidney, and me come to Canada with the hope that after a few years we would be able to … the family would join us in Canada. The rest of the family never did come, but instead remained in England. I never saw my father again. …
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… be of little help. Within the first couple of months of our arrival in Canada, mom and dad seriously considered taking our family back to the … us English in her spare time an hour or more each day after class. I can still remember her husband/boyfriend pacing the hall while we were … promising news from the International Nickel Company. We both had to come in for a medical examination. We passed and were given …
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… June 6, 1955 I came to Canada from a small Italian town in central Italy. I arrived 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. … Naples. We were told that we could bring our luggage aboard and could come off the ship until departure time. However, when we tried to leave …
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… spirits. Chub was liberated on May 2nd, 1945 and was repatriated to Canada in July, where he was immediately hospitalized. He continued to … a couple of broom handles. I must say that she made the most of it; it can't have been easy coming to new country and having to stay with a strange family." Having come from such a picturesque part of Scotland, with its many lochs and …