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  • Able Seaman Alex Chelekower
    … means who ran a tobacco company.By the time I was two years old, my father died in the flu epidemic of 1921 and my mother was forced to run … thing for a woman at that time. It was not a successful effort. She did not have time for the children, particularly for a boy. In … Able Seaman Alex Chelekower …
  • Add Your Story to the Virtual Sobey Wall of Honour
    Guidelines for Stories Word limit: 500 – 750 words Photo limit: 4 (high resolution) Stories cannot include logos, promotion, or links The Museum reserves the right to make small edits, and may redact any personally identifying information before publishing online Stories cannot be changed once …
  • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    … went into the 10 a.m. multimedia film screening, thus returning the car to him by 10:30 a.m. Well, Peter, Brian and I started talking at … Ontario. They were able to see each other only because Peter had a car, an old Ford Model A. Then the Model A broke down, keeping Peter … Fortunately, Peter's employer said, “Peter, let’s go and look for a car for you.” The dealer they went to had a 1939 Plymouth for $400. …
  • Embassy of the Republic of Turkey • Ambassade de la République de Turquie á Ottawa • T.C. Ottava Büyükelçiliği
    … Embassy of the Republic of Turkey • Ambassade de la République de Turquie á Ottawa • T.C. Ottava Büyükelçiliği …
  • League of Ukrainian Canadian Women • Ліґа Українок Канади • La ligue des Femmes Ukrainiennes-Canadiennes
    … League of Ukrainian Canadian Women Ліґа Українок Канади La Ligue des Femmes Ukrainiennes-Canadiennes League of Ukrainian Canadians Ліґа Українок Канади La ligue des Ukrainienne-Canadienne Honoring Ukrainian political refugees and Displaced Persons who fled Soviet occupation after WWII and bravely sought …
  • Tips and Tricks: Band-aid Solutions for the Event Planner
    … In the 2001 movie The Wedding Planner , we watch JLo with her calm professional demeanour and her bag of tricks (or belt in this … one should always have dark grey or black duct tape (insert chuckle here). While this may seem like an odd solution to most, I have used … that was just stepped on and pulled out, placing the tape on the back side of socks that have a hole to make it less noticeable and using …
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  • Maria Marrone
    … was born in Fossacesia, "Blind Ditch." It is a village surrounded by sea, river, farmland, and hills. In 1933, the year of her birth, the routines of living seemed hardly changed from the … like the bygone generations; women carried the same baskets; and the fisherman harvested the waters with the trabocchetti of their …
  • Conrad, Joanne Cats
    … Smisek, passenger on S.S. Waterman , March 25, 1952 I'm writing the stories of our journey from Holland to Canada as told to me by my … pier in Rotterdam Holland. It was to be the last time my mother would see her father and a number of years before a trip back to Holland … across the ocean was rough and we children and our parents were often seasick. My father would walk us on the deck. During one of these walks …
  • Signs of Agency in Refugee Narratives
    … power over the circumstances of their lives. But refugees – and other people who experience war, violence or trauma – are also agents who can exert control in situations defined mostly by control being taken … about Czeslaw Tomaszewski’s wartime experiences and his decision to come to Canada; the courage of Lynda Dyck, also during the Second World …

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