• Canada’s Refugee Determination System
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated August 21, 2020) Origins of Canada’s Refugee Determination System The origins of Canada’s refugee determination system can be traced back to 1922, when the League of Nations (a predecessor … Canada’s Refugee Determination System …
  • Turning Seven in Quarantine
    … of Halifax at that time. I recall that, but I don't recall much else to be honest. Yeah. It certainly wasn't traumatic in any way, … we needed to hear that. Let’s make those our instructions for the day, get your rest, play a little bit and know that one day those might …
  • Bruno V. Sinosic
    … John and Mark. In the year 2000 I had the great fortune (and a dream come true) to visit them and acquaint myself with the rest of the … For the most part, the voyage was uneventful. I remember, however, the day my faithful mouth organ fell overboard. It would be quite sometime … it back then) the now famous Pier 21. I said goodbye to my good friend Egidio Babudro whose destination was to be Port Arthur - Fort Williams. …
  • Stereotypes Hurt by Eric
    … me a job. Three months later, I was in the restaurant working when the commandant and two other men came to take me away. I asked them in … are you taking me? One of them answered, we were told you are a soldier. They thought all people from south kivu in the areas of Mulenge … there right away. They interviewed me many times. They questioned the commandant and he denied my experience, but when they met my boss from …
  • Pte. Lawrence J. Hebert
    … 2000 My father enlisted on June 16, 1941 and was discharged on January 26, 1946. He was in the first wave at Juno Beach on D-Day. That is all he would ever say. He wouldn't talk about his … in his toolshed. He met my mother, Rose Chudley, while preparing for D-Day. The troops were gathering in Lincolnshire, England. My mother …
  • Clarecia Christie
    … Clarecia Christie was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She studied at the University of the West Indies in Kingston where she earned a master’s degree in international …
  • Giovanni Marrone
    … River. This region played a vital role in helping stem the tide in the Allies favour. In the campaign's aftermath, the town lay in ruins …
  • Shaping a Community: Black Refugees in Nova Scotia
    … slaves were brought to the French stronghold at Île Royale in present day Cape Breton, while additional numbers of slaves arrived between … shut down in 1816 after a significant decrease in Black migration. Today it is the site of the Armdale Yacht Club. 1815-1816 – Refugees …
  • The Life of a Can-Haitian by Fraser
    … 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 …
  • Then and Now by Gunnvor
    … Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago my son said “mother make up your mind, where … fishing town in Iceland, where I started working at the age of 10, gutting the cod, salting the herring. We even got days off from school …