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… like everyone else, and my class mate started laughing at me. I felt so disrespected, despised and stupid. I didn’t know why they were … I was not with my family. One day I approached a man who sold tea and coffee at the camp hospital and I asked him if he would have anything … me a job. Three months later, I was in the restaurant working when the commandant and two other men came to take me away. I asked them in …
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… Bombaimer. His 31 SAAF Liberator bomber KH158 was posted missing while on an Italian partisan supply drop mission in October 1944. The … to me by Sam M., the ex-RAAF training friend of my father with whom he had sailed from Pier 21. Sam was in 150 Squadron RAF based at … Italy and Romagna Air Finders thought the plane might have been blown off course into the lake. The Rome based British Defence Attache' …
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… “Souvenir sailor dolls/puppets were sold in the ship’s store and I wanted one. When I asked for one, mom told me she had no money for souvenirs. I knew I couldn’t argue with her so I threw … knew where I was and in the event of the ship sinking, no one would come to my rescue, I panicked. Visions of water rushing in through the …
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… An interview with Linda Granfield, who, 49 years ago, arrived in Canada with two pots, two towels, and some books. She would go on to write numerous books about this country’s history, including a … the United States. Can you tell me about that experience? I came to go into a Ph.D. program at the University of Toronto. In those days …
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… advocacy in Canada, and returning home. I would like to share with you some insights from one of the subthemes: childhood experiences . About half of the interviews in our study involve people who had experiences of war and/or dislocation as children. There are many … offer any generalizations about children, dislocation, and war. They can, however, give us insights into how individual people experience …
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… 21, a story of friendship by Mary Cathcart My friend, Grace Cadieux, also a London War Bride, and I were lucky enough to be able to change our … after what was considered a very fast trip, Grace and I, because we had no children, had to stay aboard the "Queen" until the following day. Women and children were taken off first, and rightly so. This gave Grace and me time to enjoy the …
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… to immigrants." For artist Aquil Virani, the style of his film is "something like an animated collage of voices, text and photographs that … The creative work integrates the real details of stories from various communities as told by them. The use of voice is crucial for Virani. … in 1952 when I was 5 years old. To this day, I remember getting off the ship where my father was waiting for my mother, my sister and …
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… and friends. Re-imagining the Pier 21 exhibit has given us a chance to bring some of the chapters in the site’s history to life by … video and clothing (and some items that our young visitors can play with). Ausma Levalds Rowberry Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [2013.1912.24] Ausma Levalds …
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… in 1943, the German engineers offered to take our family with them – again, in exchange for my grandmother’s food preparation. The family … in train boxcars, following the retreating German front though Europe, while ducking bombs and bullets. They foraged for food and my … and our family with whatever they found. Along the way, my mother had met and married Wolodymir Malinowksi, who became my father. On …
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… July 19, 2021) Introduction As the Research Intern here at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, as well as a History and Masters of Library and Information Studies graduate, I have had plenty of opportunities to engage with historical information. …