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  • Then and Now by Gunnvor
    … Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago my son said “mother make up your mind, where is home?” When my husband and … the age of 10, gutting the cod, salting the herring. We even got days off from school if the boats came in loaded. No one in our families had …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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, …
  • Filena Bruno Fiorita and Family
    … in the middle of a blizzard in December 1951. He worked for 4 years in order to make enough money to send for his wife, my mother, Filena Bruno Fiorita and my 3 siblings to come to Canada. Filena was already 41 years old and my siblings, Maria, … age 4 boarded the ship La Biancamano in August 1955. Filena remembered how seasick many passengers were during the voyage to Canada. She was …
  • 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 …
  • One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort
    … father in Montreal. “…my dad met us in Montreal…Ah, the excitement! I got off and we went to another cousin that we stayed with,” Vita explained. “They had one double bed, so there is my cousin and his wife, my little brother and myself, and … One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort …
  • Joyce Emily Callow Sherwood
    … more than any other area in England. I remember when the sirens went off, we all went to the Anderson Shelters until the all-clear was … She was married to a Canadian, and they were friends of Bill. I went out with him till he was shipped out to go home. We wrote to each other, he asked me to marry him, and I said …
  • Luigi Antonio Pagano
    … and my sister, Maria Grazia Pagano. We came to join my father who had immigrated to Canada in 1958. We came from Italy, from a small town … behind. My uncle bought me my first coke at the port in Naples while we were waiting to board the ship. I recall how excited everyone was leaving the port and the cheering and waving …
  • Rosina, Domenico, Giovanna
    … Italy Ship: Conte Biancamano Arrival Date: September 19, 1955 For some time I have wanted to document the story of our arrival in Canada. I believe it is important for our children to have a starting … take a couple of weeks to arrive. No one in our home town in Italy had telephones even if we wanted to call them. Today we can reach …

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