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  • Chilean Exiles, 1973 to Now
    Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian and Patrick Kinghan, M.A., Research Intern Introduction: The Chilean Exile Crisis 2023 marks the 50-year anniversary of a coup d’état in Chile that overthrew the democratically-elected Unidad Popular (Popular Unity) party and led to 6,000 Chilean exiles settling in …
  • Sid B. Kelley
    … Sid B. Kelley …
  • Signs of Agency in Refugee Narratives
    … December 4, 2020 ) Introduction: Agency in Extreme Circumstances When people live through extreme circumstances , such as war, they face … 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 …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … and provide testimony to a federal immigration official that he or she is a minor. Otherwise, within Canadian immigration policy, they are treated as adult …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2024
    … the Museum. The Museum offers exhibitions and programming to a large audience here in Nova Scotia, but we reach far beyond our home province … narrative in here. So this is a really useful tool that's also on our website that gives you a rundown of what to expect in the exhibits. And … tied together. That's why we've selected food as the theme for our upcoming traveling exhibition, which we are calling eat, make, share: a …
  • Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972
    … became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be traced back to the early interwar period. Against the backdrop … Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972 …
  • Hunger and Hope: Irish Famine Migration to Canada
    … that by 1851, the Irish Catholic population in British North America (i.e. United Province of Canada (Canada West and Canada East), Nova …
  • Canada’s Oppressed Minority Policy and the Resettlement of Ugandan Asians, 1972-1973
    … Historian (Updated October 16, 2020) Introduction In January 1971, the Ugandan government of President Milton Obote was overthrown in a coup d’état by the Ugandan military under the leadership of General Idi Amin . The … by the time you get anywhere near they say ‘Oh no, it’s closed now. Come tomorrow.’ So people were really, really completely …
  • Treur Case, Wilma, Sid C.
    … The Trip to the Land of Milk and Honey The Recollection by Simon (Sid) … the tube. This amazed them as they related this to me. The following day we left by train to go to Liverpool for departure to our new … Treur Case, Wilma, Sid C. …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … and others, paratroopers were jumping out of planes. Two planes were shot down before 8:00 a.m. and landed in a neighbour’s field. It was not a good scene. When we were there, small stones were flying past us. We …

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