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… Regiment at a social in the summer of 1940. Married March 19, 1941 at All Saints Anglican Church, Warlingham, Surrey, England. Had her first … and her children took the train to Grenack, Scotland. Sailed on the “Ile De France” on Friday October 13, 1944. Arrived at Pier 21 in … to her home. No running water, no phone, no electricity, no flush toilet, no busses, no sidewalks or paved roads… no pubs! Wood stove, an …
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… dish of fried noodles, but in Newfoundland, where noodles were historically difficult to get, it is made with cabbage cut into ribbons. In … story, to its ingredients, to its execution — it was utterly and completely Newfoundland. It told the story of this place. It was as Canadian … Julie Van Rosendaal’s Newfoundland-style Chow Mein …
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… Roger LeMoyne (left) and Darren Ell (right). Interview with photographer Darren Ell. Darren’s work, along with the work of fellow photographer Roger … the stories of migrants in border regions? There are many things one can do with photography. Shooting sports or marine photography. There's …
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… Ina nearly 2 years of age. Unlike many immigrants my parents decide to come to Canada not from economic need, but because my father wanted to … to persuade her, as she was a 'town' person who had worked in stores all her life and who thought the idea of a farm repugnant. My father … weeks later. - hence the October passage on an 'immigrant boat' after all. As 'paying passengers' they received better rooms and food and …
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… 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 … my mom was not accepting of girls joining teams. My mom’s thought of coming to Canada was to leave the violence in Somalia for a safer place … building up inside, my eyes filled with tears, and I just locked myself in my room. I was most frustrated that I was not given the chance …
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… William Lyon Mackenzie King in response to continued demands for more prohibitive regulations to limit Chinese immigration. Commonly … referred to as the “Chinese Exclusion Act,” the legislation virtually restricted all Chinese immigration to Canada by narrowly defining the acceptable …
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… a year on a work permit and his second may have been for six years or more. We make these assumptions based on the separation of birth dates … him her maiden name Kurdziel, which he later changed to Kurdzer. One can only imagine how hard life must have been for her, not knowing if … his two sons Antoni and Frank bought land there. The land was poor and all that grew well was cabbage and potatoes. There was pasture for …
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… who came to our door. You see I was a Baha’i and it was not a right religion to have then and there in Iran of 1983. Within a day, … Islam to Baha’i faith. I left the court that afternoon and packed a small pack and hit the road to: salvation by immigration. I left for the … those peels. First peel of my ego came off when at united nation high commission for refugees I was recognized as stateless. You see, I took …
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… (Lower Saxony) from 1945 to 1949 at which time we immigrated to Canada. THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM A BOOK WRITTEN BY EDMUND … In time the decision was made that we would immigrate to Canada. This all happened before the 1950's boom started in Germany. In 1946 the … their livelihood. Some moved to the Ruhr or Rhineland, where there was more industry and better paying jobs. Others started migrating to North …
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… My Story by Pompilio De Francesco I was born in a little town in Italy called Guardiaregia, in Molise, in the province of Campobasso, on … Rotundo, Albanese, Vecchiarelli, De Carlo, Sampogna and many more left for Canada. My turn, Pompilio De Francesco, arrived when I … we stopped at beautiful Union Station. We saw Queen's Park, City Hall and the Bank of Canada Tower. We went to live in a flat on …