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… Animated by Grace An Music by Sigmund Washington Thy Anne Chu Quang is from Vietnam and now lives in Montreal. She's a project coordinator for the Naskapi Nation of … Thy Anne Chu Quang …
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… S.S. Waterman on April 15, 1952. I was eight years old and the only thing I recall about the trip was being so seasick, I never left the room. Needless to say my mother and … landlord he only had five children and whenever the landlord dropped by, three kids had to hide. In 1954 they moved to London, Ontario. Both …
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… by Eleanor Matheson, Heritage Interpreter Time 0:00:59 Transcript: So I … the Empress of Ireland was getting ready to sail away. This might have been the last sight that people were seeing. So it’s a recognizable … the Château Frontenac. It’s an historic silhouette. It doesn’t have a big addition that would have—more contemporary that you might …
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… & Adrienne Neufeld (textile artists), Doaa Jamal (graphic artist), Find What You Need, woven cotton warp and Canadian wool weft with supplemental yarn from around the world. Weaving Cultural Identities uses traditional weaving as a storytelling medium to explore reconciliation, identity and … Weaving Cultural Identities …
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… shortly after the revolution. I was about 6 years old at that time. We spent about two years in several refugee camps in Yugoslavia and … it sailed out of Napoli harbour. The voyage was very rough most of the way and we were glad when we finally reached Halifax. The weather was …
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… Walter MacDonald Searle met his wife to be, Beulah Cynthia at a dance in Haverhill, Suffolk, in England April 28, 1945. He was a Corporal in the RCAF but wearing a Newfoundland flash on his uniform since that is where he was … Mechanic, therefore playing a very important part in the War effort. We were married in Haverhill October 30, 1945. He was stationed in …
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… see here: http://www.italiancanadianww2.ca/ The project was funded by: …
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… by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:01:17 Transcript: This creepy shattered … It has an automatic sort of flotation shut device on it, made by the Thomas Utley Company of Liverpool. And it’s one of only five … of the wreck. So it greets visitors as they come through the door. And we’re enhancing that with a ripple-y, watery light effect as you come …
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… by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:01:17 Transcript: At the heart of our … Museum of History. And it’s one of the most beautiful ship’s bells I’ve seen in my career as a curator: that lovely filigree patterning on … over a thousand people. So the bell has a certain dark power that way. And we present it right beside two screens where we portray the …
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… by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:01:13 Transcript: We have a special case in the exhibit Empress of Ireland: Canada’s … tube. All these instruments—classic nautical pieces of hardware—allowed the officers on the bridge to control everything that went on in …