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… about it. The time comes that you only pray that God will show you the way; at least this is the way it was with us. Under God’s guidance and blessing we left Holland on February 13, 1951 from Rotterdam on the big ship …
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Time 0:02:27 Transcript When I hear that we are going to Canada, I just think that it is a joke or something like that. When my mom started picking our clothes and dresses I just think that I am dreaming. I came here in Canada in 24 January, 2013. Since I came to Canada, my life has changed. In …
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Time 0:02:19 Transcript Integrating into Canadian society has always been important to my family. For as long as I can remember, my parents have used every interaction they’ve had with Canadians as learning experiences to continuously refine our proud Canadian identity. In the early 1970’s, my …
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Time 0:03:07 Transcript My name is Mark, and I am from China. I have just settled in Moncton, New Brunswick. When I lived in China, I had my own business and colorful life with my family. I liked sports and exercises, like Chinese Tai Ji Gongfu. I went out for fishing during vacation and no …
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Time 0:03:59 Transcript I was born in Trinidad my mother died in childbirth and I was told I was the child. My grandmother Vernie came to Trinidad and took myself and my sister back to St Vincent & the Grenadines. Growing up on a coconut plantation on St Vincent I experience all form of abuse, …
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Time 0:03:45 Transcript Canada was looking for specialist technicians so my husband applied and was accepted and I joined him one year later. We were married by proxy in ‘55 and I came over in ‘56. The day I left Italy-I was 24 and living in a little town. It was really, really early. We were all …
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Time 0:02:56 Transcript I am now living a dream life to most. A beautiful condominium in Florida with a water view, nothing to do except laze in the sun and read – yet I find myself confused, not sure whether to make Florida my permanent home. Is it time to move again? – and again for a man? I was …
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Time 0:04:19 Transcript January 10th, 2010, almost midnight, a family of 5 people arriving to Moncton, New Brunswick, and after the airport main door open… a lot of snow, … a dark and windy day, and maybe because of the stress of the trip I felt that night was the coldest night in my whole life… my …
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Time 0:04:46 Transcript When I was 17 years old I went with my father winter fishing. We fished sauger. And this sauger in Icelandic was called svartenpick meaning, black pickerel. One day, I said to my dad, I'm in the bonspiel but I'll just run home, curl the game and then run back. My dad didn't …
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Time 0:03:50 Transcript My life was simple. I was happy with my role of young bride and mom in Carpinone, a small Italian village of the Molise Region. And then we decided to emigrate to Canada. My husband came few months earlier, so that he could prepare for us, and on November 10, 1966, my son …