• Pain of Hunger by Sudarson
    … Mom used to tell me the story where I was born. She told me I was born in Bhutan, which is a beautiful Himalayan country. I don’t remember living there, but I remember the day we left; when I was crying with hunger. My parents are carrying nothing. They don’t have … Pain of Hunger by Sudarson …
  • Perfect Pairings Call for Participants
    … for all immigrants and refugees , as well as African Nova Scotian and Indigenous bakers/cooks . Participants must be located in Nova Scotia . Closed for applications. The Project: Perfect Pairings is a project-based program bringing together diverse community … Perfect Pairings Call for Participants …
  • Xianqin Yang
    … Difficulty of Being a TA Time 0:02:42 Transcript XY: Um. My school started in January the eighth I believe. Um, the study was okay because I think that we were only required to take, three to five courses, of the … Xianqin Yang …
  • Anthony Athanas
    … Adjusting Well to Life in Canada Time 0:01:44 Transcript TA: —it was—it was—exciting. I mean, after we got over the—the—the uncertainty it was, like, …
  • An Exotic and Far Away Place - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 2:31 Transcript Yella Zahirovich (YZ): We know about … of bed sheets because they’re all plastic here!” So I went like crazy buying bed sheets. When we got them here they didn’t even fit this bed. …
  • Private Mitchell Sherman Williams
    … Williams, Mitchell Sherman "Will" "Bill" F39938 Sergeant, West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Army. Born on September 16, … in Keston, Bromley, England and this is where I met my wife to be, Dorothy Chaplin. We were shipped out to Scotland on manoeuvres. …
  • Immigration Act, 1952
    … In 1952, the government of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent passed the first new immigration act since …
  • Jebunnessa Chapola
    … Finding Support in the Bengali Community Time 0:02:03 Transcript I think whenever you meet your friends or people from your own community …
  • Clarecia Christie
    … Dealing with Winter Time 0:01:43 Transcript But for me the winter was, um—there was so much snow—more than I—because the snow don’t fall that heavy in other places I’ve been. And it was really cold. And I remember one …
  • Dominica Aspillaga
    … Bringing Sugar, the dog, to Canada Time 0:01:20 Transcript But my husband stayed a month after we left because he has to finish his work and then he has to sell the car. And then we were wondering about our dog, Sugar. Sugar is our family dog and she’s, like—she’s … Dominica Aspillaga …