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  • From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of the Canadian Museum of Immigration
    … workers from rural areas in search of employment. Population growth accompanied this, with London, already a city of one million in 1800, … in Britain, 1861-1971: patterns and hypotheses,’ Population Studies , 45:1 (1991), 57. ↩ The Times , 27 April 1874. ↩ Peter Kirby, ‘A … settlement and Great War volunteerism in New Brunswick,’ Acadiensis , 42:2 (2013), 51-74; Lillian Birt, The children’s home finder: …
  • The Barr/Britannia Colony, Part I
    … That same year, Charles II granted a Royal Charter to the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), declaring them “the true and absolute Lords and … of Trafalgar. Baird must have appreciated the company for, when he died, he left Barr with an inheritance. He also instilled in him “the … too would be an empire builder.” [7] Barr then returned to Canada, studied theology, married, and entered the Christian ministry (within the …
  • How a Chicken Pox Quarantine Brought one Family to Canada
    … Canada would have lost Margarita Bruehler nee Sosnowsky to Paraguay if her brother hadn’t come down with the chickenpox. Margarita’s early childhood memories are … Marine Tiger , bound for the promised land, Canada.” That was a lucky day for Rita and for Canada. Sometimes what seems like a tragic event …
  • Andolfatto Severino
    … on April 22, 1957 at 9:15 in the morning. I remember it was Easter Monday; we were all there on deck watching the boat "Olympia" being docked … of itinerary I traced on the Canadian map, all kinds of recollections come back to my mind. The seven days at sea on the Olympia were … but we were hungry and ate them. On April24 it was my twentieth birthday. Looking at the map we were still in Ontario. I did not tell …
  • Life in the Refugee Camp, Families and Friends with Hope by Duke
    … us. The reason why we came to Canada is not because we just like to come. We came because our life is in danger and sometime the Burmese troops come up. When I was three years old I moved to Bangkok to get a special … myself and I thought there was a clone of me in the mirror. In the welcome house, I saw all of the toys and food but I didn’t like any of …
  • Leaving Uganda: “My Whole Life in 1972” - Umeeda Switlo
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:12 Transcript Hi, my name is Umeeda Switlo. …
  • Lucia Olivo D'Angelo
    … where she would marry our father Alceo D’Angelo. Our father had come to Canada previously in 1955. Travelling with my mother were two … the Sobey Wall of Honour. In July 2014, almost fifty six years to the day, my mother returned to Pier 21 by ship. We took her on a Canada/New …
  • Johan D. Koppernaes
    … DEVOLD KOPPERNAES I had the good Fortune to meet Johan on his first day in Canada in the spring or early summer of 1951. Johan grew up in … Johan under his control over night. He made Johan an offer; either come home with him for the night or spend the night locked up in a room … friends of Johan and Barbara for over 50 years, beginning the first day Johan spent in Canada. I think Johan would agree that the kind …
  • Enne and Wiebrigje Hovius
    … in age from 2 - 16. In Rotterdam, the family boarded a boat called "De Waterman" and sailed for Halifax, N.S., Canada. Enne was hoping to purchase a dairy farm in Canada some day. It was extremely hard to obtain land in The Netherlands - hence, …
  • Childhood Memories by Claude
    … Kenya because of an illness when I was 6, I felt very bad. Life was becoming hard for me, I led a miserable life, with little material or … is where I spent my whole childhood. I continued my high school studies in Kenya and finished them, but in Kenya I couldn’t succeed … Canadian government lends students money so they can finish their studies. My dream is to study at a university here, because I want a …

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