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… the refugee camp in Benin, I registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. In the camp, we were living in abject poverty. … that would anger Nigeria. So it took ten years for me to be able to come over to Canada from that camp. I arrived in St. John’s in 2008. …
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Time 0:04:14 Transcript (Translated from Korean) When I went to university, I decided to study fine art. At that time, the war in Korea made everyone poor, so my family said, why study art? There is no money. Still I knew it was what I wanted. At that time, the Korean art field was very …
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Time 0:04:18 Transcript Perhaps growing up in a military lifestyle gave me the courage to face new environments and an adventurous spirit to explore the world. And yet, never in my wildest dreams had I imagined that one day I would be travelling halfway across the world all on my own. But as …
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… then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … to do something to cheer myself up. I enrolled an English Class in the community center near to us. I became a student when I was 65 years … something for the society. I like to be a volunteer to pay back to the community. Every spring, we plant trees. In 2013, we knitted many …
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… 1958 aboard the Italian Liner Saturnia. It was a very cold and windy day in Halifax Harbour for June on the day of my arrival. After customs and paper work, I went shopping for …
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… Nancy Somerville was only a teenager when she met Wilfred Clouthier , a corporal in the 21st Division of the Governor General's Footguards of Canada, still … England to escape detection by the German air force. They met by chance in High Wycombe and quickly fell in love. Not long after, on …
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… in the factories during World War II. It was in London, England that she met her future husband, Thomas Roberts of New Brunswick, Canada. … arrival of their first daughter, Moira Audrey Mackay, who was born on D-Day in London. Sarah always spoke of walking to the hospital carrying … her earlier years. Sarah became affectionately known as “Babs” when she was just three years of age. Food was scarce & her parents were …
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… and I sang together with brothers and nephews. In Uganda, we were competing with many musicians, and because we were not from there, and … it was all not easy. My hope was gone. I feared I was going to die, away from my family. Our music mission there wasn’t fulfilled but … of immigrants. I visited people who were left alone by their family to die at hospitals. In my career of music production, I decided to help …
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… His daughter, Gysje Koenderink, recalled an exciting crossing in which she and her five brothers and sisters saw icebergs and whales and were … Wally. “We were the last passengers to leave the ship as Wally had come down with the German measles and we were put into quarantine,” … At night we washed our underwear in the bathroom sink for the next day because we didn't get access to our suitcases. This was an …
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… 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 …