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… shalan joudry (pictured onstage) is the author of the the poem Kmɨtkinu, which was adapted into a dance piece with collabotors Sarah Prosper, Susanne Chui, … in a hearth made of grandparent rocks from the land we’re on -excerpt from Kmɨtkinu, by shalan joudry Kmɨtkinu means our homeland in …
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… Photo courtesy of Saïd Allibou. “I can’t feel my hands!” Saïd was wearing gloves. His wife, Ghita, was not. It was February 4th, just nine … app. “It's more accurate compared to the others,” according to Saïd. Buy your winter clothing in Canada. Saïd and Ghita purchased winter … outfits in Morocco but “our clothes didn't match the winter here.” Buy mittens, not gloves. Saïd has learned that “mittens are more …
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Time 0:04:50 Transcript I was born in Bremerhaven on January 23, 1941 to Karoline and Theo Muller, two doting parents. Everything was on fire, chaos everywhere. Although I was born in St. Joseph Catholic Hospital, I was baptised Lutheran immediately. Since Bremerhaven was bombed continuously and …
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… Settling in a new country may pose many challenges for immigrants There are … to name only a few. Though there are countless other adjustments we may discuss relating to immigration, one important and certainly … face struggles in trying to cook healthy food. Sometimes it’s hard to buy food within your budget because many items are more expensive than …
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… of Dover. I could even tell by the sound of their engines that they were the enemy. It had a different drone of the engine. You could see … bottom of the garden. The government supplied a corrugated metal shell (an Anderson Shelter) and her father buried it so that 3/4 of it was …
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… By guest contributor John Moses, Delaware & Upper Mohawk bands, Six … Schools at Petawawa and Borden would have been adventure enough. By June 1941, however, the ONTARS were ready to ship overseas , … on our train ride from Scotland to England.” (England, July 2, 1941). By the end of the following month, the ONTARS were well into more …
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… to a Jewish family of moderate means who ran a tobacco company.By the time I was two years old, my father died in the flu epidemic of … effort. She did not have time for the children, particularly for a boy. In recognition of this, she sent me away to Gotha, Germany, to a … Able Seaman Alex Chelekower …
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… in Volhynia (which was a province of Poland at the time, now it is Western Ukraine), in 1936 of ethnic German parents. My ancestors … my great-grandparents came from. In 1945, before the Russian army came in, we were again moved west by horse and wagon and sometimes by train … Reinhard, Anna Lehmann …
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… Ausma Levalds was Canada's 50,000th displaced person welcomed into Canada after the Second World War, brought by the international Refugee Organization. She came through Pier 21 in … Hamburg, with her daughters. In late spring, she started to work at Hahn Brass, packaging hardware. She rented two rooms on the second …
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… My Story by Pompilio De Francesco I was born in a little town in Italy called Guardiaregia, in Molise, in the … they had made mistakes in North America and in their return to Italy. We were brainwashed by Mussolini's propaganda. We were told that Italy …