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Time 0:05:19 Transcript (Translated from French) After working very hard for days and nights on my research project, I stood up in class and started doing my presentation. My English wasn’t fluent like everyone else, and my class mate started laughing at me. I felt so disrespected, despised and …
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… by Ron Marsh, Model Builder Time 0:04:07 Transcript: Hello. My name is … model. Everything on this model is built by hand. It didn’t come out of a box. It took me, approximately, about 800 hours over a … and the exterior mostly. I was as true to the original ship as I could be. Everything that is on this model was on the original Empress of …
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Time 0:04:19 Transcript January 10th, 2010, almost midnight, a family of 5 people arriving to Moncton, New Brunswick, and after the airport main door open… a lot of snow, … a dark and windy day, and maybe because of the stress of the trip I felt that night was the coldest night in my whole life… my …
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… - On The Train “In this special train for immigrants, the passengers sat, ate, and often slept on wooden benches. At regular intervals along … take on coal and water for the steam engine, as well as huge blocks of ice which, when they melted, provided drinking water for the … could to help others out. One day, between stations where we could buy food, our family ran out of bread and jam. A very kind elderly …
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… I visited Halifax Nova Scotia on July 15, 2003 where I spent an interesting morning touring and researching my arrival … We docked in Halifax on an overcast day on December 29, 1952. This account is the story of Peppino, a nine-year-old boy emigrating to Canada from the town of Agnone, in the Molise region …
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… Time 0:02:31 Transcript I had incidents, that’s again us being a newcomer in Prince Albert, that’s later when we had the two children my … we moved, and my husband and I at home we speak Schweizerdeutsch, Swiss-German, and with the children too. And we moved to that little … Switzerland in 1947. When Annemarie was 16, she started studying to become a home economics teacher. After four years of college, she …
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Time 0:04:22 Transcript When people ask me about my immigration story, the first picture that comes into my mind is the snowstorm. It was January 2010, my first trip to New Brunswick — I had just finished my immigration interview in Fredericton when I learned my bus to Moncton was cancelled because …
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… Early 1944 I was evacuated with my high school to a mountain side south of Vienna from where we had to flee from the Russian army in … continue to share a room with 3 others at the residence for years to come I decided to emigrate. With a friend’s help and connections I … having a home since I was 13 years old it was not too hard to say good bye to my parents at the railway station. I stopped over in Switzerland …
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… The Trans-Atlantic Passage of Rosa (Mulé) Nobile and Daughters Maria & Carmela When my … I found out that we had been accepted to immigrate to Canada, we climbed on the bed and jumped and jumped for joy. In my 10 and her … my father had only arrived in Canada in April, the paperwork was not ready and so the travel agent in Bianco advised us that we would make …
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… need a better future for our children". The people in Holland had just come through a war and were trying to rebuild, but there was no housing and no money. At that time the governments of Canada and Holland and other countries as well, were setting up information meetings to promote immigration because Canada …