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… The Dambergs family arrived in Halifax through Pier 21 on Valentine's Day after a rough sea voyage across the Atlantic. The weather in … (Roberts - architect) and (Marija - retired teacher and present day glass artist) came to Halifax from Paris in 1954. She had numerous …
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… said that she was destined to immigrate to Canada because her birthday is on July 1st – Canada Day. As well, her dad, Luigi Zuttioni, was an Italian soldier during … of National Health and Welfare in Rome and was granted a visa to come to Canada. With the airline ticket that Mario had bought her in …
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… and Michael Vickers, “100 years of Immigration in Canada”, as in Canadian Social Trends , Statistics Canada: Catalogue No. 11-008, Autumn 2000. Di Cocco, Caroline, et al. One by One: History of the Italian Community … Press, 1999. Gabaccia, Donna R. and Franca Iacovetta. Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World . Toronto: …
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… and expensive for me; I did not agree and promised myself that some day I would walk through life on only those kinds of shoes. Onwards we … people of Canada That did not take our things, even when they had the chance? And so, at that C.N.R. station, we all started to grow the … roots to hold it down and make it richer, Or else the topsoil will become dry and blow away. Canada has made the promise of the shoes come …
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… Reasons for Coming to Canada: Life in Poland was restricted in terms of having a decent … a stable, young and growing country, which was enticing immigrants to come to Canada and help to develop. Finally on April 14, 1928, Dad, his … treats as they were so rare. I can still taste the orange and apple today. They have the taste of then. When Dad was home he'd work for other …
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… work. He asked John, "would you like me to write to our relatives in Canada to sponsor you there to give you a job they have business there, … to board the ship to take them to Halifax and then take the train for days to go to Regina. They reached Regina on June 9th, the relatives … He sponsored family, cousins, distant relatives and whoever asked to come to Canada. At 20 years old he started business with 2 of his …
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… and the Growth of the Dutch Community. The Postwar Wave and Its Predecessors.” (unpublished manuscript). Curtis, Herb. The Scholten Story . Oromocto, N.B., 1996. De Jong, Gerald. The Dutch in America 1609-1974 . Boston: Twayne … Recommended Resources - Netherlands …
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… Covid pandemic. Why would I have left my home if I didn’t have to? To come somewhere where I don’t know anyone? That was then. Now, I … family.” Ibrahim Sahary “I left Egypt in 2017. As a journalist and a community organizer I could not stay any longer, I had already been … My husband tries to make me feel better but I feel like there is no community, no friends. It's very isolating. But I know that life is …
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… like bunk beds and were housed in the hold of the ship. During the day we had access to common areas everywhere. It carried immigrants … he brought back a couple of loaves of bread and an enormous jar of jam. It was the first time we had ever seen or tasted white bread. We … In that classroom were other Dutch immigrant kids who had recently come and later we were told that our teacher, Vivian McBay, had just …
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… war so they had a great respect for them. Canada required only a ten-day boat trip. As it was, Dad was seasick for the entire ten days and spent the whole trip in bed. From Halifax, they traveled to … each other again. The farm near Kenilworth is still in the family today and, for us kids, will always be the place we call home. This year …