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  • Conciliation and peaceful futures through art
    … shalan joudry (pictured onstage) is the author of the the poem Kmɨtkinu, … with collabotors Sarah Prosper, Susanne Chui, Sara Coffin, Isaac Abriel, Robert Azevedo, I'thandi Munro, Sam Penner and NAT Chantel. Photo … 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 …
  • Margaret Van Toen
    … MRS. GOLDBLOOM Now, let's head over to the Resource Centre where you can look up more information about your own family's trip. There are all kinds of documents to browse through, with such things as passenger …
  • Maria Rosaria Pagano
    … friends and family behind. From Naples we went to Sicily to pick up more passengers and I also remember stopping off in Gibraltar and … to join his father, so I had him look after my son and they would chum around the ship together, otherwise I would not let him leave our … cabin alone. Our cabin was below water level and away from the outer hull of the ship, so we had no window to look out of. We shared the …
  • Finn Sander
    … my rationale for reconciling the fact that the SS Stavangerfjord was smaller, older (built in 1917), and creakier. But it was still a … emigrants heading for Canada and U.S.A., and the realization must have come to a lot of folks, as the Norwegian coast slipped below the … but this didn't overly worry me, as I had been told that I could make more than one trip to the buffet table. Of course, I soon tired of the …
  • Gertrude, Felix and Hanns Skoutajan
    … like a cork. We had seen ice bergs not too far away. Now, however, all was tranquil. We had arrived. Our cabin did not have a port hole, so I quickly dressed and headed up to the deck. What I discovered …
  • Maria Rosaria and Antonio
    …   I arrived in Canada in April, 1958. I left Naples, Italy on a ship called the Vulcania on April 9th and I arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax on … two years earlier and were living in Toronto. They sponsored me to come to Canada. I intended to work here for a while and then go back to … friends and family behind. From Naples we went to Sicily to pick up more passengers and I also remember stopping off in Gibraltar and …
  • K-Bap Coxinha (Brazilian Coxinha with Korean-Inspired Filling)
    … at Pier 21, brings together home cooks to create recipes by blending elements of their unique cultural food traditions. This recipe was crafted by Brazilian chef Cinthia … a fusion of their cultural backgrounds and their shared passion for comfort food. Step 1: Drain the oil from a can of tuna and measure out …
  • The Journey Begins by Ludee
    … Time 0:02:10 Transcript I was born in Cela. I can’t remember about Cela but my mom told me that it was a beautiful place all our family lived in Cela and we all lived close together, they all … what kind of food is that. The food was awful. When I came to Welcome house. I thought to myself WOW THIS HOUSE IS BIG, but then someone …
  • Party Dresses, New Friends and Other Advice for a Long Quarantine
    … and Grace were excited until they found out that they were going back alone. They would be evacuee children, waiting out the war in the … the SS Hilary but Grace enjoyed the voyage. It was all going pretty well until their arrival in Toronto. “The most memorable part of my … absolutely, wonderful to us and did everything they could to make us comfortable, entertained and happy. “On one occasion they took me to …

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