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  • 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 … um but he had seen enough of horrors on both sides that when it was coming time for me to let them know that I was planning to go to Canada … nearby, the grandparents I knew the best. By then my grandfather had died, but my grandmother, she was under the attitude that the president …
  • Mirdza Grikis Dambergs
    … Debbie and Shirley. Madame Dambergs, a Prima Ballerina with the Lativian National Opera, had a long record of achievement. She studied … and to show appreciation for the impact she had on all of our lives as we studied and learned, we, her students are proud to share her story with Pier 21. Any ongoing …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student … Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel … and other religious orders were expelled. Rafael was moved to a public high school. In the new Cuba, where loyalty to revolutionary ideals was …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student … Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel … and other religious orders were expelled. Rafael was moved to a public high school. In the new Cuba, where loyalty to revolutionary ideals was …
  • How Whales Helped Me Find a New Home by Jeannine
    … He loved drifting there until everybody leaned over the rails, only to come up just then and blow his fishy breath into everybody’s faces. One … is a little piece of land to grow things and to have a couple of ponies next to my house by the sea. Return to St. John's …
  • Anton, Zofia, Ted and Bill Warelis
    … severe injuries to his back and neck during the war. Zofia Warelis (nee Milcharek) was born on December 25, 1905 to Stephan and Mary …
  • 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees
    … Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
  • Bannock - Shane M. Chartrand and Jennifer Cockrall-King
    … detailed accounts of who makes the best! I always cringe when Elders come to the restaurant and order it — they are my harshest critics. … However, I’ve tweaked my formula over the years and have finally come up with what I think is the perfect single recipe — at least for … since it’s a food adopted from early European contact, and the ingredients include processed white flour and white sugar. We acknowledge …
  • Jean Shephard Laffin
    … PIER 21 : Recollections by Jean Laffin (Nee Shephard), War Bride 1944 My association with Canadians started … to a women’s group called, The Women’s Own. They had their meetings on Wednesday afternoons. We children would go in after school just in time … days was 14 years old. Unless parents were well off enough to pay for high school fees, or smart enough to pass the entrance exams. (I guess …
  • Yolanda Garcia
    … First Day in Canada Time 0:02:30 Transcript … the first one was—it was so … say uh. But it was remarkable because it start my life right so that day, so it was—I was—it was so special and I remember, and I remember even the days after uh—that when I was going to the school to my classes that …

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