• Siegfried Mehlitz Sr.
    … Shop to buy cigarettes, chocolates and other small items. After 2 to 3 days sea voyage, the Mess Hall was thinning out more and more due to … at Pier 21. It certainly looked different then compared to the present day. Everyone was happy the voyage was over and now reality finally set …
  • CSM Donald Thomas Whitfield
    … The following is a quote from a speech Don gave on Remembrance Day 2009: “It was September 1941 when I enlisted in the Canadian Army …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    Sketch of the Woodside Tavern by Mary Louise Doyle. Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern is a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be …
  • Chairuth Bouphaphanh
    … that, so this is going to be our new home. But have no idea what’s to come and where are we going. So those things we don’t know. So we—And … of thousands of people who left Laos after the country came under communist control in 1975. Chai and his parents and brothers fled to … two years. In 1980, the family was sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee to immigrate to Drake, Saskatchewan. Members of the Drake …
  • Anyone Could Be a Refugee; No One Chooses To Be a Refugee
    … When there is a war in a country, it can become difficult for its citizens to leave... People lose their … challenges. The most important challenge, and certainly one that we can relate to, is fear. Growing up in Burundi during the civil war, where there was violence every day, my family faced so many difficulties but… we managed to stay. …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    Sketch of the Woodside Tavern by Mary Louise Doyle. Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern is a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be …
  • Stories - Netherlands
    Stories in Dutch Dad's Story Dad's Story (English) Children's Stories AE Didi Murphy Willem Kreeft Josephine Keyzer Sietske Flietstra Bellsmith Lina Douwasma Jack de Vries Peter van der Horden Connie A.H. Uyterlinde Family Stories Toon and Trees Maas Johannes Kreeft and Elizabeth Kreeft-Meijers …
  • Maria Marrone
    … MARIA MARRONE Born: Maria Di Girolamo August 25, 1933 Fossacessia, Italy Immigration: 1956 Date … Sudbury Ontario Occupation: Housewife /Seamstress/Factory Employee Died: May 13, 2004 Toronto, Ontario Maria was born in Fossacesia, … often staid, but never bitter. She got married at nineteen on a day that was as unassuming as the event itself—just she and her …
  • Nicolangelo Romano
    … routes from the same small town to Canada. In 1953 after an eleven-day journey aboard the small Greek liner the Nea Hellas, I arrived at … stood more than 70 years ago and still remembered it like it was yesterday. Canada has been good to us, and we like to think that we have …
  • No Chop Suey in China - and other food stories
    … Chinatown. What were these dishes, she wondered. Why were they so common in Canadian Chinese restaurants, and what was their origin? … were created by people who were not necessarily cooks, using the ingredients available to them and trying to cater to a North American palate. Chinese men, who had come to North America initially for the Gold Rush and later as …