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… Time 0:01:49 Transcript: So, it was very, if I were to sum up my childhood, I would say it was a very comfortable, safe, solid … and resources to do well at school, to have nice activities. It was—it was a good place to grow up. Now, by the later years of high … change, and the way that we thought about the United States, which to me, in the growing-up years, the United States was just the obvious …
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… of people immigrated to Canada because the golden rush and railroad construction around nineteenth century. When I grew up, people around … and a lot of expectation, we started out on our journey to Canada. We landed in Canada on June 21, 2010. Yet that moment as if just happened … you are part of this society, and you also can make this country become better. Return to Charlottetown …
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… Stuhm Family Immigration History My Father Karl and my Mother Leni, farmed in East Germany, in a small … of that time I was in isolation and remember my Mom and Dad visiting me. I could see them through a glass window but was not allowed …
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… The S.S. Marine Perch left Malta with 121 other Maltese immigrants bound for the shores of Canada on May 8 1948. Alfred (Fred) Micallef was 18 years old, could hardly speak … of those year ago, traveling to unknown parts, with no idea of what lay ahead, persevering through the years, giving to his children one of …
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… Welcomed and Welcoming As I awoke in my upper bunk I immediately noticed the difference. The ship was … was fringed with ice and there was snow on the ground. Our ship lay anchored off shore. Behind us I could see the narrow entrance to …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia Ship Name: T.S.S. Nea Hellas Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada … 23, 1949 Age on Arrival: Alois - 30 years old, Anezka - 24 years old The following is the story of Alois and Anezka Kolarik’s journey to … was the youngest of 7 children: Rozalie, Anezka, Joseph, Marie, and Jan. A baby sister Frantiska passed away at the age of two in 1911 and …
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… I left my hometown of Lee on Solent on the 20th of March bound for Canada on …
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… keeping record of immigrant arrivals until 1865. Manifests from this time are few and far between, as not many of them survived. Knowing I would not be able to determine which ship he arrived on, I focused my search on determining where in Ireland the Little family is from. I … and had the following children: James (b. 1840), Thomas (b. 1841), John (b. 1844), Peter (b. 1847), Ann (b. 1848), Margaret (b. 1854), …
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… it was, like, you know what, resolve yourself that this is (claps) where you’re going to be for the next little while, right. … for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … Flora, Trinidad and Tobago. Santa Flora was a town owned by an oil company and Tony’s father worked as an x-ray technician at the oil …
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… for the Museum’s first virtual residency. Inspired by the Museum’s "Contributions" playing in the Canadian Immigration Hall, Aquil invited participants … The creative work integrates the real details of stories from various communities as told by them. The use of voice is crucial for Virani. …