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… Canadian born children Ursula, Steve and Mark and their families. Here is my short biography of where I immigrated from and how and why I … for training. They advertised in the local newspapers overseas and set up more embassies to process interested applicants. And lots of us …
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… estate. Rosalind, by trade, was a seamstress and also nursed the sick. She married Thomas Charles Roberts of Garn, Caemarvon, Wales who was … away Thomas wished Rosalind and the children to move to Canada where Rosalind's brother George Davies had moved in 1927. From the time … The Rosalind Roberts Family …
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… political and places not secure in Pakistan right now because the whole region is, in under fire, war, and because of Afghanistan and … brother they were all well established and they had no intention to come and start from scratch. But I told them my assessment is that it … master’s in international relations. In Pakistan, Aamir worked as a teacher and in community development. He applied to immigrate to Canada …
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… These stories are a significant component of the museum’s holdings. Here at the museum, our written story collection is one of our … This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier … big adventure, the big adventure had been our survival.” According to her, the transatlantic journey was a matter of necessity or “something …
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… Roger LeMoyne (left) and Darren Ell (right). Interview with photographer … all doing it logically. It's very rational. You meet people who are teachers, lawyers, people who are in their country doing what we're doing … My work can sometimes be more static. I'll take two hours in a dump site with life jackets and come out with a pretty interesting series of …
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… Pecile was born in September of 1927, in Fagagna, a small town in the Friuli- Venezia-Giulia region, in northeast Italy. He is the second … the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare. In December he set out on the MS Vulcania for the 10-day trip from Genoa, Italy to …
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… My father Harold Melville Rees, was a handsome, charming, funny Canadian in … Lynn Thomson, was a beautiful, young (only 16 years old), Glaswegian lass. They met in a dance hall in Glasgow, called the Locarno, and were … troopship, and to his home in Vancouver. Mom had to stay behind until she could be booked passage on a "War Brides' Ship". In May of 1946, …
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… Pier 21. I was four years old so I don't remember anything except for the long train ride from Halifax to Montreal where my grandfather came … father Vittorio Ciampini (28 years old), my mother Antonia D'Alesio (26 years old), my sister Domenica (6 years old) and my brother … herder without a trade and without much schooling so he decided to come to Canada in search of a better life for his family. He had …
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… Roger LeMoyne (left) and Darren Ell (right). Interview with photographer Darren Ell. Darren’s work, along with the work of fellow … the stories of migrants in border regions? There are many things one can do with photography. Shooting sports or marine photography. There's … right in front of his daughter- point blank in the head… And they said, “We have to get out of here. I have a young child.” And that …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Netherlands Date of Arrival: February 5, 1968 Port of Entry: Queenston, ON … were World War Two years with The Netherlands under German occupation. She graduated from the Gemeentelijk Lyceum in 1955. Temporary jobs in …