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… he could save the money to put himself through medical school. After becoming a doctor, he travelled to England in 1914 for further studies. …
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… but it’s important to always remember that people in the past lived complex cultural, emotional, spiritual and economic worlds no less so … fail to take historical perspective in judging the past, but the most common may be in matters that are strongly linked to matters of moral … Our Cultural Landscapes , the Acadian case study was one of the most complicated ones to discuss from the point of view of taking historical …
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… why I work with the Immigrant Workers Center and focus on South Asian Communities. So I can let them know what their rights are in the … was a refugee in Burkina Faso Togo, Liberia, Nigeria and Turkey before coming to Canada in 2016. That’s when my story in Canada begins.” … They are both volunteer social workers who work with the South Asian community in Montreal. Balkar Singh Balkar Singh, along with his wife …
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… young man from Charlottetown who joined the RCAF in 1940, trained in Canada as a wireless-operator/air-gunner and left for overseas from … our final destination with a call at Norfolk, Virginia to pick up American troops. The C.T.Castle was a troopship of 27,000 tons and on board were only 300 passengers-250 Americans who had been torpedoed near the Cape and 50 tour-expired RAF …
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… Celtic – Nova Scotia). If you would like information about hosting Welcome to Turtle Island after December 2027, please contact the artists . … as a medicine game—to bring wellness, settle conflict, and strengthen community. Valued as both sport and ceremony, Lacrosse teaches … this continent to this day. Tens of thousands of years later, when newcomers from Europe arrived, those same Indigenous values of kinship and …
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… 13, 1964 Age on Arrival: 21 My Immigration Voyage from Scotland to Canada At the age of 21, I made the decision to leave Scotland to get … I was given the choice to immigrate to Australia, United States or Canada. I chose the latter believing it would be a permanent life changing decision. Canada was in need of skilled trades. I applied in 1963 to the Canadian …
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… see any sun in the morning and in the afternoon it became foggy. I can still not get over the fact that I missed the family on shore in … to the railing. Over all the ship is not bad. There are about 300 Americans on board. The Sibajak will sail on to New York after Halifax, so … hard wind blowing. Paula brought up again this afternoon. She didn’t come for lunch and went to her cot. I find that Americans people, …
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… a social gathering spot. So, the British had their own club, the Goan community had their own club, the Indian community had their own club. And in fact, between the Indians, between … the way kids spent their time was playing sports, right? And it was a community gathering spot. So, after your sports, you all went to the …
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… to Halifax in the early 1900’s. He enlisted on 16 October, 1916 in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, at the age of 18. He served in the 8th Army Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery. He was wounded a couple of times and he … In his later years at the Immigration Office he worked in the canteen with Ross Taylor. Of those days, my brother and I remember when …
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… to share the story of my dad Nicola Lavolpicella and how he came to Canada. It was the early 1950's and the economic conditions in Italy … the beginning of a new and prosperous life and Nicola thought it was a chance he had to take. He would have to leave behind his parents Luigi … coaxing from his sister Apollonia, Nicola would send for Francesca to come to Ottawa. Francesca's parents knew my dad well and couldn't have …