• Walking by Faith by Irma
    … attending daycare. Everything was going well until immigration denied us Canadian residency. We hired a lawyer to appeal, and he recommended that we move to Toronto. In Toronto, we had to start from … again. The Ministry made a video about our story, which is on their website. Whenever possible, my husband and I give talks about …
  • First Families of Pier 21
    … 8, 1928. There were only 54 people disembarking at Pier 21 on that day and included passengers from Holland, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, …
  • 1999: Canada’s Resettlement and Repatriation of Kosovar Refugees
    … in Albania, notes that “Communication was difficult…Cell phones died around two o’clock in the afternoon…Moving the refugees required a … 48 (April 2006): 7. See the Canadian Immigration Historical Society’s website, http://cihs-shic.ca/bulletin/ . ↩ United Nations High … Canadian Forces Logistics Association , 2019, https://www.cfla-alfc.org/stories/op-parasol/; Canadian Armed Forces and Kelsey Berg, …
  • Immigrant Voices: Diverse Reactions to the Transatlantic Voyage from Europe to Canada’s Shores
    … This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier … her, the transatlantic journey was a matter of necessity or “something we had to do.” [1] As a Latvian refugee, Ernests Kraulis notes that the … voyage.” Eventually, the Poggi family arrived at Pier 21 on Christmas Day in 1956. [3] In its final year of operation as an ocean immigration …
  • Language as a "Pull" Factor for Newcomers to Francophone Minority Communities
    … by Siniša Obradovic, Former Oral History Researcher The Oral History … in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent the diversity of the country’s population in our … a majority English-speaking area? The following interview clips, where we focus on the pull factors, begin to address this question. In a …
  • Language as a Pull Factor for Newcomers to Francophone Minority Communities
    … by Siniša Obradovic, Oral History Researcher The Oral History Collection … in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent the diversity of the country’s population in our … questions emerging from an initial exploration of these interviews is: why do some French-speaking people decide to settle in a majority …
  • Nomaqhawe Sibanda
    … in the language.” And you know when you read the web sites for communities it is a marketing piece (laughs). So it was sold to me a … differently (laughs). And I liked the cosmopolitan feel from the website of Winnipeg and that you had people from all over the world, … being able to live, work and study in the country. The family was denied permanent residency after trying for many years because the United …
  • What's in a Name? by Vi
    … were Gudrun Gudlog Kristjansson and Bjarni Sigurdur Bjarnason. Upon moving from the farm in Saskatchewan in a Icelandic community called … of 1943 at age 8 and in grade 2, my teacher asked for my name. Gudrun Viola Bjarnason. The teacher remarked that this was a very long and … had to have my identity as an Icelander back again. So I became Gudrun Viola Bjarnason Hilton. This is my name as a retiree and a senior …
  • Voy y vuelvo by Abel
    … Voy y vuelvo by Abel …