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… as a child were narrow and limited. When I entered university, I studied architecture and the students were encouraged to travel, …
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… and, perhaps most importantly, fostered a sense of community. Since day one of my arrival in Canada, I have been lucky enough to have a … grow up and they start to have questions about their identity. One day, my 11-year-old son asked me this question: “Mom, how many aunties …
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… Many of the older children added that they had voluntarily chosen to come to Canada despite communist claims to the contrary. Image of USAT … her parents had died in Siberia, she and her compatriots “…wanted to come to Canada, we do not want to go back to Poland.” [13] Meanwhile, a … water if he worked the whole day. When asked about what the young newcomer thought of Poland, he replied, “we like our country very much but …
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… promote emigration. Countries preferred by many emigrants were Canada, the U.S.A., New Zealand and South Africa. I had several reasons … After the war we saw little of each other. Meeting again we had a chance to get reacquainted. Because of him, I had the opportunity to … were off limit to regular passengers. The Atlantic crossing took 10 days. I don’t remember all that much about it, except that we had a lot …
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… in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 … to leave home, but my father said, that when I moved out I could never come back. That scared me, so I finished my education and stayed until … Bremerhaven, I met a young Canadian, Wilf, who encouraged me to come to Canada instead of going to Africa. Wilf was sending me big, …
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… 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 …
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… you know? Sometimes it was, uhm, a pack of cigarettes for the soldier and then he would let me go through. Sometimes I would give an …
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… Canada on October 15, 1960 leaving my mother and his son. After a nine-day journey aboard the SS Queen Frederica, my father arrived in Halifax … for Ottawa with a little less then $10.00 in his pocket. After working day and night in an assortment of jobs, my father had saved enough …