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… Ariella Milanese was born in October 1936, in San Lorenzo di Fumicello, in the province of Udine, in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region, in northeast Italy. She is … of her late husband, with some help from friends and family. One day Mario Pecile , the brother of Ariella’s neighbour, came into the …
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… it up the gangplank and I knew it. I don't usually cry, but I did that day. I just stood there and wept. Two soldiers came and helped me … started to inch out of the dock, the band began to play "Will Ye No Come Back Again." The streamers began to snap. I wondered if I had done …
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… I spent an interesting morning touring and researching my arrival to Canada on the ship - Vulcania. We docked in Halifax on an overcast day on December 29, 1952. This account is the story of Peppino, a … the dining room until one day the attendance diminished to the point that Peppino found himself alone at their assigned table. Finally …
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… we had no children, had to stay aboard the "Queen" until the following day. Women and children were taken off first, and rightly so. This gave Grace and me time to enjoy the beautiful summer day, walking the decks and breathing in the fresh air, which, because …
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… 21 on May 16. From here on Kees will write his own story. In those day, when someone emigrated to a faraway country, you never knew if you … When the case was being loaded, on the street in front of the front door, the whole street came to watch. We took the dining room table, 6 …
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… retired there and it never came into my mind that I would live in Canada someday. All things were changed because of my daughter. She … then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … to do something to cheer myself up. I enrolled an English Class in the community center near to us. I became a student when I was 65 years …
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… Gaetano said to his family that this is English bread and to this day the family refers to white loaf bread as English bread. After two days on the train, they arrived at Union Station in Toronto, awaiting … Gaetano provided for his family by working construction, an honest day’s work, as he would say and Angela worked as a factory worker. To …
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… demands for more prohibitive regulations to limit Chinese immigration. Commonly referred to as the “Chinese Exclusion Act,” the legislation virtually restricted all Chinese immigration to Canada by narrowly defining the acceptable categories of Chinese … did it fully satisfy nativist and racist opinions. [1] Calls for the complete cessation of Chinese immigration originated in British …
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… It may not come as a surprise for many that the head of the National Arts Centre … of music were less than ideal, it helped steer him down a path to become one of this country’s best known champion of the arts. In 1947, … that immigration has been one of the major ways in which Canada has become the kind of country it is in the early part of this century,” he …
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… Fenton poses with a family during the Museum’s Canada Day celebrations. Visitors to Canada Day and other special … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … about herself in the third person: She cuddled Teddy, her constant companion and whispered in his ear, ”we are really going to sail to …