• 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 …
  • Family Reaction to Leaving - Bruce Bolin
    … Leaving the United States Time 0:01:30 Transcript And I had come from a family where my father had been drafted and served five years in the U.S. Army during World War Two and seen enough to realize that war is not good. He … Family Reaction to Leaving - Bruce Bolin …
  • What is Canadian Food, Anyway?
    … Generation after generation of newcomers have brought new recipes, ingredients and approaches, while Indigenous cooks have kept old food traditions alive and created new … cooks make a huge variety of foods, all of which, whatever their origins, can be called Canadian food. Whether we grew up eating pancakes …
  • Datta and Pat Saungikar
    … the Navy as soon as he returned to India on their Carrier. After they were married, Pat sent out many job applications to various companies … in Rexdale, Ontario and their reply was- if you can be in Canada by February 28th- you have a job! He returned to UK at Christmas and … Toronto, Sunday evening. On a very cold February day they made their way to Rexdale. Datta went first thing on Monday morning to Litton …
  • What Your Donation Makes Possible
    … and enriched by immigration and migration.  Learning and illumination We are a museum of stories and stories are gateways to understanding. … newcomers with stepping stones  Donations also go to support the Welcome Home to Canada program , which assists newcomers gain work … their Canadian careers. Donate Our mission needs you It is the gifts we receive from individuals and companies that allow us to do the …
  • Karen and Canadian - Bwe Doh Soe
    … Life in Canada Time 1:45 Transcript Well, I, right now, I feel like I’m becoming more like a half of Canadian I guess, because I get, because I’ve … long enough to adopt the culture now, so. But, maybe if you were asking those questions earlier, like two years or three, I would answer …
  • Women at Risk Refugee Program - Kathleen Sigurdson
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 1:39 Transcript Kathleen Sigurdson (KS): Because all … the applications, even from those other countries—so if you were living in Qatar, you had to apply to Abu Dhabi because we didn’t have any …
  • Daxa Popat
    … you know. And snow flurries, you know. That struck us there was one thing. And no leaves on the trees, you know. That was a bit a—it seemed strange, you know, because we always have leaves on the trees in Uganda, you know, because it’s always green, greenery. The grass is always green. They didn’t have to worry about snow, or ploughing the snow, or you know, or worry anything about that, or ice, or …