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  • Marie Ori Burns
    … Single Men and Women To my best recollection the name of the steamship that tied up in Halifax Harbor on January 17th, 1948, was the General Stuart Heintzelman. She was a merchant vessel. She … life-long wish was granted me in 1984, when I had earned the degree of B.A. in English Literature. My joy was double, as my son received his …
  • Mary Alati
    … long periods of time from our bedroom window on College Street which has become many years ago "Little Italy". I was difficult for my … never board. Our vacation was to go to Centre Island, at the foot of Bay Street, High Park and the Zoo. Mom gave the best birthday parties (all my Canadian friends loved Italian cooking; …
  • A Mother and Daughter Recall Frightening Days in Quarantine
    … They were robbed on the ship to Canada and quarantined when they arrived … 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 … before us. A few years before us. And, of course, he wanted to be with his family, so that’s why I have time to be convinced to come to …
  • Anthony Athanas
    … uncertainty it was, like, you know what, resolve yourself that this is (claps) where you’re going to be for the next little while, right. There’s no turning back so might as well make the best of it. And, I think—for us it was—my brother and I, because we … for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as …
  • Self - Acceptance by Roisin
    Time 0:03:18 Transcript Immigration never was a topic that I thought much about before beginning my placement at Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington. After all, I was born and raised in Canada. On the other hand, both my parents were immigrants, born and raised on opposite sides of the world, in …
  • Bittersweet Freedom by Aliyah
    Time 0:02:36 Transcript Here I was riding a bike for my first time at 16… falling, getting back up. I wanted to be able to ride a bike like everyone else. Growing up in a small knit cultural & religious community in Ontario, everyone knows what you’re up to ALL the time, so basically my whole …
  • Philip Barry Chaytor Pepper
    … Philip Barry Chaytor Pepper was born in the close of Litchfield Cathedral in Litchfield England on October 1, … He was anxious to return to join the Royal Air Force, as had his father in WW1. As he was just 17 years old his family thought it …
  • Crossing the Big Pond by Monika
    Time 0:04:50 Transcript I was born in Bremerhaven on January 23, 1941 to Karoline and Theo Muller, two doting parents. Everything was on fire, chaos everywhere. Although I was born in St. Joseph Catholic Hospital, I was baptised Lutheran immediately. Since Bremerhaven was bombed continuously and …
  • My Second Life by Kang
    Time 0:03:46 Transcript When I was 18 years old, I started working as a car mechanic in Korea. When I was 25, I started my own business in Seoul called Kang Motors. Four years later, I married my wife Hey Suk Cho and next year we had our first child. I did my best at that time. My business was …
  • Monybany Dau
    … names—calling names, talking bad about black people, so I decided to leave the scene, but they won’t let me. They follow me outside the … here, go back home. And it signed it three cross which is KKK. Yeah. When I came to Red Deer I start working at the gas station which … start calling my name there, start calling me United Nation guy, meaning that I’m refugee, I’m not supposed to be here, you know. People …

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