• Guilt About Leaving - Robert Porter
    … Leaving the United States Time 0:01:14 Transcript Leaving the US was difficult, like I said, besides family and friends, … was really difficult on many levels. I felt really guilty. I was leaving behind people that I knew, you know, I had friends that were going … Guilt About Leaving - Robert Porter …
  • Ivy R. Woods Kelly, Isabel G. Kelly
    … My mother, Ivy (Woods) Kelly was a war bride and we arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax on March 7, 1946 during a terrible … a good middle class home in a pretty place in England called Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex overlooking the English Channel. She had no idea what …
  • Matteo, Carmela,
    … Family, 1961 The Orlando Family, 1961 Matteo, Carmela and Maria in Italy …
  • Family Bonds & Belonging
    … 2019 What is family, anyway? Can you pick your family or is it determined by biology? Is family the people you share holidays with? Or, is it more of a feeling? Family Bonds and Belonging honours and interprets the many ideas of family. Through four … Family Bonds & Belonging …
  • Refuge Canada - The Ink Blotter
    … by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:02:24 Transcript: One of the most … amazing is underneath the ink blotter is a secret message for help. We’ve had it translated from the German and it essentially reads, … Refuge Canada - The Ink Blotter …
  • The Pier 21 Story
    … Step into the past and experience what it was like to immigrate to Canada … Pier 21. From the ship you sailed on, to customs and immigration in Halifax, to the train you took to your final destination, discover the past housed in the …
  • Arriving in Canada: Arepas in Mississauga - Monica Valencia
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:08 Transcript So, we took a plane from Miami to Detroit. And then at Detroit, we just waited for my dad’s cousin to pick us up, and then he drove us to Windsor. And then when we … Arriving in Canada: Arepas in Mississauga - Monica Valencia …
  • Leaving Uganda: “My Whole Life in 1972” - Umeeda Switlo
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:12 Transcript Hi, my name is Umeeda Switlo. When I … Uganda. And it says Umeeda Umedaly and, and uh, where it was I was going, to Oregon, before I came to Canada. This is it. This is where my whole life was in 1972. And I also found with me this identification certificate from …
  • Salzburg with Aunt Olga and Uncle Joseph - Peter Duschinsky
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:50 Transcript Yeah, so, I left. I was with uh, my Aunt Olga and my Uncle Joseph in Austria. Austria was quite amazing. I’ve never seen, I have never seen anything like that. We lived … Salzburg with Aunt Olga and Uncle Joseph - Peter Duschinsky …
  • Vietnam War - Len Sirois
    … Life in the United States Time 0:02:22 Transcript I had just graduated from university—1965. I wasn’t home two weeks. This would be in May because school used to end in the end of April there. I was home two weeks and I got a letter from …