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… care, because I would get meals…my cousin and his wife, they put a sheet from the ceiling down so they could be separate, and then the … half of the bed. That, I remember. And I used to tease my cousin, I said, “You sleep with a girl!” Again, when people remember being … things I recall, I guess because…there are certain freedoms that you can’t describe that…worries were taken off your shoulder.” And was Vita …
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… in Canada, photographed in 1929 by his mentor, photographer John Garo. Credit: Yousuf Karsh wearing a turban/Library and Archives … figures of the twentieth century; Karsh captured iconic images of people like Muhammad Ali, Helen Keller, Glenn Gould, Jacqueline Kennedy, … does it have to do with Halifax? Yousuf Karsh was Armenian, born in a community targeted by the Ottoman Empire for genocide during and after …
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Captain Huxford pictured on his wedding day with wife, Margaret Huxford Captain Huxford on his wedding day with wife, Margaret Huxford Captain Huxford on his wedding day with wife, Margaret …
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… So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … I’ll see papà again … and I feel a little bit happy. The horn blasts from the ship. Everything is shaking. …
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… he pressed on towards the Canadian shores to give his family a new lease in life.” (Pietro Di Loia) “These were very difficult post war … and child. Trying to learn the language and how to get around in the city was difficult. He told us many times if he had the money to return … at the prospect of venturing to a new land, all the way on the other side of the ocean, and my desire for adventure, I was 15, made my …
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… Transcript When I heard the announcer call my dad name and other people to go to Canada I was so happy. I was so happy that I cried, we all did. On that day when we have to come to Canada I was kind of sad because I won’t be able to play with …
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… Leaving the United States Time 0:02:43 Transcript My parents disowned … New Haven, Connecticut, because I felt still I was in the States, but coming to Canada, he wouldn't, my ex-husband wouldn't have been allowed … about his son being a draft dodger. So, that was sad. And the FBI visited his mom twice in Newark, Delaware to tell her that, if you can …
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… States Time 0:01:07 Transcript Tom Corcoran (TC): Yup. So I didn’t come back and as soon as I didn’t come back, I lost whatever college deferment I had as far as the military was concerned. And then I …
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… stories of people starting school in Canada. Some are funny, some are sad, and all show the resilience required by newcomers. Here are a few …
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… stories of people starting school in Canada. Some are funny, some are sad, and all show the resilience required by newcomers. Here are a few …