• My Boy, He is Seventeen by Lu
    … education, are we really enjoying our economy growth?” That was the moment we had that idea to change our life, to move somewhere. Two years later we arrived in Prince Edward Island. One snow storm day in December, we explained the Canadian education system to our sad kid; he wanted to go back to … My Boy, He is Seventeen by Lu …
  • Peter Hessel
    … (The Marriage Swindler) which was 20 years old and really not a very good way to say goodbye to German films. The sound was impossible. This … bunk. I am told it is better because no one will vomit on my head. I set my suitcase on my bunk and went back on deck, looking for the IRO … as we were leaving, the sun came out, but it rained the rest of the day. The ship was towed by the tugboat Sirius: four times around its …
  • Citizenship Program
    … 11+ Maximum number of participants: 30 One of the most significant points in the immigration process is the recreation, reframing or …
  • Johannes Kreeft and Elisabeth Kreeft-Meijers
    … We remember being separated as a family, women and children on one side of the ship, men and young boys on the other side of the ship. I … facilities and even to have a cup of coffee. The food on the ship was good. As soon as we approached open water seasickness started in. The … Every evening we had a church service. Our boys helped the minister set the songbooks out on the chairs. The Priest and the Pastor shared a …
  • A Mother and Daughter Recall Frightening Days in Quarantine
    … They were robbed on the ship to Canada and quarantined when they arrived … again. While Laima Haddad still hoped to return to her home one day, her family decided to come to Canada in June 1955. “…one was in Montreal, and the others were … A Mother and Daughter Recall Frightening Days in Quarantine …
  • Umbertinese
    … Angela, Luciana, and Pina arrived at Pier 21 on March 31, 1964 aboard the Queen Frederica. The journey from Supino, a small community in the … in texture and taste compared to the bread they ate in Italy. Gaetano said to his family that this is English bread and to this day the family refers to white loaf bread as English bread. After two …
  • Striving for a Dream by Yafet
    … Time 0:03:12 Transcript I never thought I would say “No” to come to Canada until the day I actually had to leave my country. As a … where kids had their own bedrooms and where they threw muffins and cupcakes at each other because they had more food than they had rocks and … because we had to flee. We hid in a truck which delivers food to soldiers in the borders and we started our journey. When we got to the …
  • Hopeful Journey by Shiam
    … My story was just like David Copperfield. But I never gave up my studies. In order to continue my studies I had to do private coaching and sometime pulling rikshaw. This … forced to leave my job. After, few months another Board, hired me as a community relation officer. In this position I had great satisfaction …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student … Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel Castro led a group …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student … Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel Castro led a group …