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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Holland Date of Arrival: … Mom) came from Oudewater, Holland where they owned a “dairy” store selling butter, milk and cheese. Dad delivered milk door to door, while Mom looked after the store and the …
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… Time 0:02:02 Transcript El Salvador is small and beautiful and is surrounded by 5 volcanos which … get a job, her brother picked her up and drove to Detroit to apply to come to Canada. I admire the quality of independence in my mother. I … A Lesson In-Dependence by Alwin …
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… people who experience war, violence or trauma – are also agents who can exert control in situations defined mostly by control being taken … about Czeslaw Tomaszewski’s wartime experiences and his decision to come to Canada; the courage of Lynda Dyck, also during the Second World … and her mother Lella Umedaly, who left Uganda in the early 1970s. All are based on their oral history interviews, which are held in the …
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… I remember…the time my second brother arrived…I had scarlet fever. I can remember a crib in the kitchen and my brother was in it…our whole … not, Christina made a full recovery and was soon up to trouble. She recalled some of her more notorious childhood escapades in the neighbourhood. “We had one …
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… 1951 was the first year Germans were allowed to emmigrate to Canada. It was only six years after the war, … and administration offices. Because most buildings don't have more than one story, the city spreads over a large area. Situated on a … in an office building. Again from a letter. We inherited a bed eal here; our predecessors left us a lot of dirt and some unwanted …
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… quarantined to our cabin for the rest of the journey. It was very small quarters, but we made it work.” If the war brides as a group had a catch phrase I can’t think of anything better than “making it work”. “When we arrived … Quarantined on the Journey Over to Canada …
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… Not all immigration stories are a straight line. Abdoulaye Baldé's journey, … He walked up to administration and said, “I am a refugee, I’ve come here, I don’t know where to go or to whom I should speak.” SARIMM … having someone explain how my mission to the Moon would be,” he says. More lessons followed as Abdoulaye learned all new skills to survive on …
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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 6:33 Transcript But we used to walk around the the, the hills of Salzburg. We used to watch the skiers, … because, and I hadn’t mentioned this before, the third sister Boezsi [Elizabeth]—Remember there was Olga, there was my godmother in …
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… Seeing Diversity in Canada Time 0:00:54 Transcript They were all houses you know, I think it was probably that the community was all in different houses. There were no towers you know? … attending an immigration seminar with a few of his friends. Vijay felt that Canada could provide better educational opportunities for his …
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… of visitors to our Museum changed. I love change, by the way – especially this kind. I have been working at the museum for over five years … be a “look and read” type of museum. In the Pier 21 exhibition and Canadian Immigration Hall, there are places for people to touch, sit, smell, put stuff …