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Time 0:03:37 Transcript One day, my daughter came home and asked me the question, dad, why do some of the students in my school call me ‘Paki’. My reply was ‘it is not a polite word’ and I will have a visit with your school principal. Both my wife and I were born in Uganda but of Indian origin, we …
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Time 0:04:08 Transcript I was born and grew up in China worked there, retired there and it never came into my mind that I would live in Canada someday. All things were changed because of my daughter. She graduated from a famous University in Beijing in 1996, then she got a scholarship from …
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Time 0:02:41 Transcript In January 1945 my mother’s family, as Germans, fled Poland westward into Germany, trying to stay ahead of the advancing Soviet armies invading from the east. My mother’s family had to pick up everything and flee on a moment’s notice three times. Life was not easy in the …
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Time 0:03:39 Transcript Here I am. Visiting my homeland 23 years later. I was born and raised in Germany. In East Germany, to be more specific. Germany was separate for 40 years, and I grew up in the socialism part. That part was the only part I knew. We were not allowed to get out of East Germany. …
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Time 0:03:46 Transcript When I was in high school, my parents put me to a private school run by nuns and had to wear a uniform. My parents chauffeured me back and forth to school. As a teenager, my parents did not allow me to date boys. I rebelled. I became pregnant at the age of 18. When my belly …
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Time 0:02:23 Transcript Choosing a university is hard. I have always lived in London and Western has always been my number one but now that French is an opportunity for me, Ottawa is moving up on the scale. There are so many things to consider when deciding what university to go to and just …
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Time 0:04:29 Transcript My father was a farmer. He suffered a lot because the yield was not good for making a lot of money. One day, I went on a land visit with my father on his bicycle. That time my father told me that you become a researcher, not like me. After that I participate a lot in the …
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Time 0:02:21 Transcript My grade nine gym teacher said I was one of the fastest girls she has seen in years. When she encouraged me to join the soccer team, my anxiety started building almost instantly. All I could think was what my mom would think. I knew from my older sister that my mom was not …
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… began on March 31, 1926 in Woking, Surrey, England as Phyllis Irene West. Her parents were Robert and Beatrice West. She had 5 brothers and … then Richard. Not too long after arriving in B.C. they were able to buy 10 acres in Langley. Phyllis started her life over again; making … herself when he wasn’t able to. She took care of him until he passed away in April 1992. After 47 years of marriage, Phyllis had to learn to …
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Time 0:03:23 Transcript I thought Canada was the most boring place in the world when I was growing up. It was so very white and English speaking then. But I had family members who worked in countries I thought were exotic and they told me stories of their adventures. When I graduated from …