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  • Art and Artifact
    … How a vivid dream and a nearly forgotten history led to a new exhibition Chinese Head Tax Certificate issued … And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, … Art and Artifact …
  • Art and Artifact
    … How a vivid dream and a nearly forgotten history led to a new exhibition Chinese Head Tax Certificate issued … And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, … Art and Artifact …
  • Setting The Table: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities
    … Transcript Screen Text SETTING THE TABLE: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming … in the countryside…in the district of Vihiga in western part of Kenya. My mom was a very, very welcoming woman. She raised us to be able … Setting The Table: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities …
  • Cookbooks, Cultural Connections, And Migration
    … By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian Introduction They took me to Woolco—which doesn’t exist … called The I Never Cooked Before Cookbook. I still have it…it tells you how to break an egg and separate the yolk from the white, how to … even though I had a cookbook. So I had little money that they’d given me—an advance. So I went across the street and bought a TV dinner, …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2025
    … year. July 1, 2024 marked 25 years since we opened our doors,  welcoming visitors to the National Historic site that would become today’s … concluded its run here at the Museum in January, and in April of 2026, travels to the Joseph Brandt Museum in Burlington, Ontario, the … in English, "Countless Journeys", and one in French, "D'innombrables voyages". Season 5, which dropped in May of 2024, was centred on the …
  • Giovanni Marrone
    … Immigration : 1953 Sailing Ship : SS Nea Helles Date of Departure : May 21, 1953, Napoli, Italy Date of Arrival : June 02, at Pier 21 … especially by those with whom they endured the struggle. World War II, the subsequent German retreat and Allied advancement through Italy … learn new skills, make new friends and look to the future. On May 16, 1953 Giovanni married Maria DiGirolamo in a simple ceremony in …
  • Eddy Baldacchino
    … thus be the last to immigrate. He boarded the Nea Hellas on November 26, 1953 with his brother George, sister Pauline and mother Lorenza. On …
  • Tullio Idilio Callegari
    … The Immigration Story of Tullio Idilio Callegari (Italian Immigrant) In 1954, shortly after my 22nd birthday, my father, Gio Batta, passed away. My 38 year old …
  • Kavitha Ramachandran
    … Like an Infant as an Immigrant Time 0:02:15 Transcript … so it’s very important and understand that again when you’re coming to this country you consider yourself as an infant you don’t … Kavitha Ramachandran …
  • Dorothy Schofield-McIlveen
    … Halifax to Halifax and Points West By Dorothy Schofield McIlveen On the morning of June 20, … rocking with laughter. I had never been to camp or the YMCA. What an eye opener I got, seeing all these girls in stages of dress and undress … dainty compared to our war time undies. Mum suggested I throw away my old undies as I traveled so as to have all these beautiful undies …

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