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  • Steven (Istvan) Erdos
    … is STEVEN (ISTVAN) ERDOS I was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a Jew, I went through the war- years in Hungary, and after the war, when the … where we were settled into a temporary housing development for the few days we had to spend there before embarking. The day finally arrived …
  • Success Through Hard Work by Farial
    … I became a more social individual, and I wanted to give back to the community. Currently, I am a part-time student at the University of … working with Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington to help out other newcomers in this country. Now, I can say I am a proud Canadian who is involved in the community and who has many friends. Return to Guelph …
  • Leonard K. Read
    … March 29, 1953 were all of these things and more. Fifty years to the day of their arrival at Pier 21 the three surviving members of that … was a young structural engineer that had been sponsored by Avro to come to Canada and work on the Avro Arrow project. When asked about … romances, Leonard Read, with a telling twinkle in his eye, murmured, "We were shy English bachelors." Of his first impressions of Canada …
  • Phyllis Danroth
    … over her as they did not expect her to live. Phyllis attended the High Church of England, where she would go to church every Wednesday and twice on Sundays. After finishing school at age 16, she went to work in the local cinema as an usherette. When WWII broke out Phyllis left the cinema to work in the munitions …
  • 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 …
  • Then and Now by Gunnvor
    … Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago my son said “mother make up your mind, where …
  • Does Anyone Have Any Questions?
    … take a moment and share the reasons I prize questions so highly and why you should too. First, let’s explore the scope of what we talk about here at the Museum. The history of Canadian immigration is a vast and immensely complicated thing. It’s a … Does Anyone Have Any Questions? …
  • John Freeman-Marsh
    … like to go to CANADA. As I only had just turned 7 years of age, a few weeks before, and knew nothing about Canada, let alone where it was, I … there. WOW! It sounded like a great place to visit. Subsequently one day in August I found myself leaving home with my parents on the way to Newcastle’s train station. There we were met by a lady, who had …
  • Hendrik, Hendrika van't Veld
    … Mom & Dad Story In 1953 our uncle, his wife and three children were going to Canada to start a new life under the Farm Workers … diet but our father wasn’t a happy traveller on the Atlantic Ocean. By day 2 he was seasick and this condition lasted until he set foot on …
  • The Reunion
    … be wearing a blue shirt. How is it that on this, an uncommonly busy day, every man who enters is wearing some variety of blue shirt? She … the family to a place which was unknown to all other people. The next day, the family of such persons would get a little gift. This gift …

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