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  • Michael J. Molloy
    … flag on the door and a guy there saying, “Are you Molloy?” “Yes.” “Come on with me.” And he said, “I’ll take you to the hotel.” And I … looking around and I hear from the back of the thing, “Well, did you—come here to look around Molloy or are you going to get to work?” So, … anyways. And so, what do we do? And a brilliant clerk who had come along had this—had brought along a numbering machine. You know—it …
  • Ethel Suarez
    … here and the mayor of the city. Okay we swear that we are going to become a good citizens and we sing “O Canada” and they give us the citizenship paper and this—how I will say? I become a real person again when I receive that document. CB: What did … me. Let me free here. That you are here, that you belong to a community and you can do things for the community too. That was one of …
  • From Akureyri to Gimli by Berghildur
    … lost all our savings that took years to build up. But, we had our own company that we could sell and we had money to leave, lots of people … would. Lot of Icelanders were moving to Norway but we wanted something completely different, and that was Canada. I called my good friend … saying goodbye to our home country. Gimli was our new home and it was comforting to move to a place that they called New Iceland. The people …
  • A Sympathetic Interest in the Plight of Refugees: World Refugee Year in Canada
    by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction: Origins of World Refugee Year In the spring of 1958, four young individuals affiliated with the Bow Group, a conservative public policy think tank inside the British Conservative Party, initially suggested the concept of an international year specifically …
  • Stan and Chris Flynn
    … Stan Flynn volunteered for the Canadian Army in 1940 in Ottawa. In February 1941, he left from … Holland and, finally, Germany where they were stationed on V.E. Day, 1945. He was repatriated to Canada in August 1945 on the ship, …
  • Setting The Table: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities
    … Transcript Screen Text SETTING THE TABLE: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities Screen text with audio I was born in the … is lomo saltado, or stir-fried beef. It is a fusion between local ingredients, like the potato, and the method of sautéing beef first used by … places of origin, re-creating them in Canada as they added new ingredients to the mix—as well as new neighbours, new families, and new …
  • The Ilgvaris Vilumsons Family
    … We were forced to leave Latvia in 1944 to escape the approaching Russian army. The family consisted of my father, … the minute the tug started to tow us out of the harbour, seasickness set in. The men were separated from their families and required to do … it still. When we arrived at the train station in Kenora, my uncle said "Hi!". I had no idea what he was saying. That is how my basic …
  • Becky Forshaw Angus
    … (nee Forshaw) was born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland in 1911. In 1941, she met her soon-to-be-husband, Albert "Chub" Angus, while he was on … throughout his life as a result of his wartime experience. Becky said goodbye to Scotland later that Fall, and arrived at Pier 21 on …
  • Conciliation and peaceful futures through art
    … we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can … an abstract sharing circle i imagine myself within, among family, community, and all people here. I write it this way because i believe … landscape, how the years/generations of colonization were short by comparison. In agreement with others, i felt that all people, including …
  • Conciliation and peaceful futures through art
    … we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can … an abstract sharing circle i imagine myself within, among family, community, and all people here. I write it this way because i believe … landscape, how the years/generations of colonization were short by comparison. In agreement with others, i felt that all people, including …

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