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  • Decision to Come to Canada - Richard Allon
    … Leaving the United States CMIP 21 · Decision to Come to Canada Time 0:01:51 Transcript They advertised in one of the … the Canadians offered me a job. And that's ultimately, those factors combined to get me here. Oral History 07.03.02RA with Richard Allon … Decision to Come to Canada - Richard Allon …
  • Would You Pass The Test?
    … So, we created a space in the new Canadian Immigration Hall to connect our visitors to the concept of citizenship, whether they are a … I can see that they have had an “ah-ha!” moment. These instants are precious in museums. It is in this moment that they realise that becoming a citizen is not easy. That would-be-citizens are expected to …
  • Anthony Athanas
    … it was, like, you know what, resolve yourself that this is (claps) where you’re going to be for the next little while, right. … for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … Flora, Trinidad and Tobago. Santa Flora was a town owned by an oil company and Tony’s father worked as an x-ray technician at the oil …
  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    … an orphanage at age 6. Well, he thought he was six—but more on that later. Prince is currently the artist-in-residence at the Museum, where … [that] you can eat food and be full blew my mind." But, he says, " my connection to food was just very skewed ... I had worms in my stomach, … keep in regular contact because "it just seems like random things come up where I have to edit my identity from the ways that I remember …
  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    … an orphanage at age 6. Well, he thought he was six—but more on that later. Prince is currently the artist-in-residence at the Museum, where … [that] you can eat food and be full blew my mind." But, he says, " my connection to food was just very skewed ... I had worms in my stomach, … keep in regular contact because "it just seems like random things come up where I have to edit my identity from the ways that I remember …
  • Gaetano Rossi
    … shirt and tie. In his pocket were his passport and immigration papers. The sun was shining and Gaetano Rossi was arriving at Halifax's Pier 21. This time, however, he had come by car from Toronto not by boat from Naples. He was 68 not 18. He … things worked and where we should go. The date was July 28, 2001 and my uncle was in Halifax for the first time since he arrived at Pier 21 …
  • Margaret Van Toen
    … Let's Pier into the Past by Joy Forbes & Helen Weeden Pages 8-12 only based on mom's … MRS. GOLDBLOOM Now, let's head over to the Resource Centre where you can look up more information about your own family's trip. There are … Drew, Premier of Ontario, recruited seven thousand English people to come and live in Ontario. I'm joining my husband who is already here in …
  • AIR image testing
    … of Art and Design in Vancouver and has taught photography for multimedia at Concordia and photography intervention courses in Cairo and … for dignity, respect, and justice. Tamara wrote, “Through this work, I want to amplify these people’s humanity first and foremost. I believe a … not stay any longer, I had already been jailed many times, I did not want to go back to prison. I came here with my daughter Laila. At first …
  • Maria Teresa DiGiandomenico
    … (Rasetta) Pier 21 Immigration Story aboard Vulcania, 1956 The adventure began on June 8, 1956 for my mother Elena DiGiandomenico, my sister Vera and me. I was nine years old and my sister was only 3. We left the security …
  • Changing Awareness - Peter Seixas
    … was very, if I were to sum up my childhood, I would say it was a very comfortable, safe, solid childhood where I had the opportunities and … to do well at school, to have nice activities. It was—it was a good place to grow up. Now, by the later years of high school, some of the … that I had grown up with, and that was part of making my life so comfortable, up to that point. Oral History 14.02.27PS with Peter …

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