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Time 0:04:01 Transcript I, originally, am from the west northern part of Iran, the country mostly known as Persia in the history. Iran is a multinational and diverse country consist of different “nations” like Fars’, Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, etc. It is normal to be anywhere having different …
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… Haitian boy and girl so I had Haitian siblings and together we went to Canada. Living in Canada was hard - it was like a fairy tale, but I was the strange beast … The Life of a Can-Haitian by Fraser …
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… take a moment and share the reasons I prize questions so highly and why you should too. First, let’s explore the scope of what we talk about here at the Museum. The history of Canadian immigration is a vast and immensely complicated thing. It’s a … Does Anyone Have Any Questions? …
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… , a young woman from England. Previously Lee had served with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, Artillery and Provost Corps. He was in one of the first boats to land in France on D-Day. The couple tell two different stories of how they met but agree it …
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… Mom & Dad Story In 1953 our uncle, his wife and three children were going to Canada to start a new life under the Farm Workers … diet but our father wasn’t a happy traveller on the Atlantic Ocean. By day 2 he was seasick and this condition lasted until he set foot on …
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… like to go to CANADA. As I only had just turned 7 years of age, a few weeks before, and knew nothing about Canada, let alone where it was, I … there. WOW! It sounded like a great place to visit. Subsequently one day in August I found myself leaving home with my parents on the way to Newcastle’s train station. There we were met by a lady, who had …
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… when a friend I worked with asked me to go on a “blind date” with a Canadian who was in London, England on leave. He had met with another … who didn’t have a date. I can still hear my friend saying: “Oh, come on Hazel, you’ll only have to see him once. You won’t have to see him again.” Well, here I sit at a computer 66 years later writing about the meeting …
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… Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · My Father’s Music Time 0:03:48 Transcript …
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… January 6, 1954, my husband Franco and I left our home in San Lorenzo de Arzene with our two little girls during a terrible snowstorm. Fulvia … was two and a half and Liviana celebrated her five month birthday when we arrived in Canada. We travelled by train to Venice where we had to …
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… GEERT (GEORGE) AND GEESJE (GE) WESTERHUIS -LUNSHOF FAMILY April 2022 On February 23, 1951 Geert and Geesje Lunshof and their 6 children arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax Nova Scotia. They had left Beilen, their village in The Netherlands, … being picked up by a bus that was filled with other immigrants on our way to Rotterdam in order to board the S.S. VOLENDAM. It had been a …