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  • Refuge Canada - Video Gallery
    March 10 to November 11, 2018 Transcript Transcript Transcript Transcript Transcript …
  • Lesson Plans and Activities
    … Programs Online Age Group Program Delivery Costs A Taste of Our Home Activity …
  • Refuge Canada - UNHCR Tent
    … by Michele Gervais, Curatorial Projects Coordinator Time 0:00:30 Transcript: This is a UNHCR refugee tent, which they located in Montreal. So it was most likely used in North America. It was set for disposal … Refuge Canada - UNHCR Tent …
  • Vittorio Polletta
    … I was born in Portolandolfo, Italy, the eldest of nine. At the age of 25, I signed a contract with the Canadian Pacific … April 1953. I travelled by train to job site in B.C. There were 30 us on the job. Everything was very primitive and only brooks and … retiring, I purchased a dairy farm in up state New York. I retired again, sold the property, and now at leisure to do whatever I wish. …
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  • Refuge Canada Opens at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
    … exhibition begins “no one wants to be a refugee, anyone could become a refugee.” Moving through major waves of arrival from Second … similar to those used by refugees fleeing from Turkey to Greece. Look out a plane window as the shores of Canada approach and listen to refugees tell their stories throughout the exhibit. Refuge Canada will challenge and inspire as it brings …
  • Addolorata Salvatorelli-Di Falco
    … of Chieti in the country of Italy. We left Vasto on May 12, to go to Napoli to board a ship bound for Canada. We boarded a ship called … finally arriving in Halifax on May 27, 1954. The trip was very good, although Grazia and Gemma were ill during the crossing. In Italy, … a brother. It was very hard to leave my family, but unfortunately, I had to be strong because I had four very young daughters to take care …
  • Legacy Gift
    … Story. Telling our stories preserves our history. A gift in your Will preserves Canada’s immigration stories, forever. Here are two … like you who have taken the step of remembering Pier 21 in their Will. Frances Swyripa “The last time I rewrote my will…I locked in the …
  • Giuseppe, Addolorata DiFalco e figli
    … of Chieti in the country of Italy. We left Vasto on May 12, to go to Napoli to board a ship bound for Canada. We boarded a ship called … finally arriving in Halifax on May 27, 1954. The trip was very good, although Grazia and Gemma were ill during the crossing. In Italy, … a brother. It was very hard to leave my family, but unfortunately, I had to be strong because I had four very young daughters to take care …
  • Peggy, Dorothy, Dick, Don
    … Liverpool Docks endured almost nightly bombings, and, although we were well away from the dock area, the bombs seemed to be falling as close … and screened by six destroyers. It was learned after the destroyers had detached in mid-Atlantic, that one of the ships developed engine … daily life-boat drills, organized games, entertainment, meals, and the odd bout of mal-de-mer, the children were allowed to roam fairly freely …

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