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  • Basket Weaving and Being Welcomed in Mi’kmaki
    … with artist-in-residence Virick Francis about art-making, finding solutions and what it means to be welcomed by Mi’kmaq. Virick Francis, photo by Isabel Francis Photo. When … egg grows, as a fish grows, smolts, all different levels, and finishes off with the full-grown salmon. I want to paint one side as they are …
  • Love Stories
    … We often say that the War Brides followed their hearts to Canada, and so they did, but they were not the only ones. From the Italian proxy … as children only to find each other years later in Canada we have had the opportunity to hear a lot of love stories. I think of my …
  • Sietske Flietstra Bellsmith
    … live on a huge ship for about nine days to get there. Wow! From that moment on, what had been ‘normal’ faded into the background. Chaos took its place! … and always left in tears. My best friend invited me to dinner to say a formal farewell. Our family doctor examined all of us and stuck …
  • War Strategies: Plan B - Habib El-Hage
    … In my case, it's true, I saw all kinds of horrible things, but we also develop this aspect, this? we develop some kind of survival, a disposition to steer through all these dangers … me to see how to use them. For, for example? just as an example: in order to go north from Beirut, we had to cross about ten checkpoints, …
  • Jane Helders
    … There I met Gerald, my future husband, although at that time we had no idea that we would be married eventually. I lived in Leeuwarden, … of North Holland. We went steady for one year and then I broke it off. In September 1953 Gerald immigrated to Canada. He sailed from … Holland in 1955 and 1957. He looked me up and something clicked again. In 1957 I was invited to his sister’s wedding and on my birthday …
  • Marjorie Barbara MacBurnie
    … The Stories of Four English War Brides Who Adapted to Canada: How the War Bride Society Helped Them to Adapt. It is reproduced with … Hood's legend and Nottingham Castle still exists. When the war broke out, she was working at Players Cigarette factory in Nottingham. … after D-Day and the troops were more advanced in-land, however, he did go over to Europe and down to Italy until the war ended. Meanwhile, …
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    … course of an interview. The recorded document is a primary source that can be archived and made available to the public. Why does the Museum … motivations and intentions around their decision to immigrate. As well, it is unable to provide information about how immigrants interact with, adapt to and participate in Canadian …
  • All or Nothing by Jessica
    … we were invited too. My mom was very involved with the Filipino community, so my dad would take us to support the events and participate in the … family. I am afraid that if I show too much interest in one culture, I will lose the other. So what I do, is try not to lean on either side, …
  • Giovanni Diodato Guglietti
    … the central Italian town of Sora, Frosinone. Even as a child Giovanni had shown himself to be courageous, brave and a natural leader - … and future wife, Concetta DeGasperis . They were married on August 26, 1961 and soon started a family of their own welcoming in to the …
  • Jozwiak, Yarosh,
    … who was Polish, and Catarina Sahajdak, who was Ukrainian. Mary had one sister Hanja, and two brothers, John (Jan) and Michael. She … Road in Welland Ontario. John Yarosh, born Joannes Jarosz on January 26, 1905 in the village of Dubowce, Tarnopol, Austria, to Terentius … on the ship Montrose on March 12, 1938, to meet her future husband Joe (Josip) Muzar in Schumacher, Ontario, where they married on April …

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