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… Father Beurskens from Baarlo (our cousin). With fond farewells, we set off as the soil of our beloved town of Neer vanished beneath our feet. … seriousness of such a huge event. Even though this major life change had been arranged and prepared years in advance, it is still a parting, … is only then that you feel the loss of the loved ones and friends you had. You feel completely different at the last minute, and sometimes …
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… In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we … this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them … Since we started this activity in the summer of 2015, we have had thousands of contributions (3227 to be exact) from our visitors. …
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… By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian Like Canada, soccer is beautiful…anyone can do anything. There are no … you, they will help you. Canadian society is like this too. [1] Joe Pereira, Portuguese Canadian Introduction Sport has long been a … and informally as a device for migrant expression and contribution, as well as adaptation and integration. Sociologist Ramón Spaaij argues …
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… Children March 1952 At 15 years of age, somehow I knew I would not always stay in my home … about one year after a 5-year occupation of ‘Holland" by Germans. They had left the country severely crippled and damaged. The idea to … a store. In the early 1940′s, six weeks before the war began we moved again. This time because of a recession, and Dad could find work in a …
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… is the story of a stubborn, ambitious man who beat the odds. A man who had a dream, a man who could see a new life, happiness and a place of … of Aloys (Anglicized as Alois) Wilhelm Escher, born March 13, 1906 #26 Kampstrasse, Gladbeck, Westfallen, Germany. That particular house … assisted the local farmers at harvest time and was a coal miner as well. He even managed, with his meager salary, to buy gum and …
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… Hessel's Diary Aboard the M.S. Anna Salén in the northern North Sea, off the Scottish coast. Tuesday, June 17, 1952: On Friday (June 13th) I … convinced that I would be sailing. On Saturday I sold my winter coat to a pawnbroker in Vegesack. I didn't want to spend my last few … (The Marriage Swindler) which was 20 years old and really not a very good way to say goodbye to German films. The sound was impossible. This …
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… research. I use “queer” occasionally as shorthand for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, very advisedly: I am reminded that many of my friends would … consensual acts with another adult, leaving him with a life sentence. [26] Following the White Paper and the Criminal Code update, a 1970 … be granted discretionary landing by the Immigration Appeal Board. [30] In the shifting legal climate, convictions—domestic or …
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… Heading for a Good Life in Canada By Carla White When Theodorus Jacobs (a.k.a. Theo) … his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the …
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… two wealthy American ladies, Mary Hitchcock and Edith Van Buren, who had come to Dawson City not to make their fortune, but to experience … broke of gold in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia in 1858, and again in the Klondike region of the Yukon in 1897, thousands of hopeful …
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… of settlement, an agreement called the Privilegium . The Mennonites had left Russia under the shadow of a decade of military reform, and in particular the growing … War The agreement to exempt Mennonites from military service in Canada had a sharp test during the First World War. There was a ban on …