• “We Wanted to Come to Canada”: Pier 21 and the Arrival of Polish Orphans
    … 21, 2020) Forcible Displacement of Polish Nationals to Labour Camps in the Soviet Union In August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union … Many of the older children added that they had voluntarily chosen to come to Canada despite communist claims to the contrary. Image of USAT … “We Wanted to Come to Canada”: Pier 21 and the Arrival of Polish Orphans …
  • Filippo Trento
    … factories in Milton until he retired at age 65. Filippo married Eileen Massey from Acton, Ontario and they had 3 children, Sergio, Vittorio … to have been able to return to Italy a few times over the years to visit his family he left 50 years ago. …
  • Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … as they stand in the converted, modern space of the Museum. One of my favourite tools for this has been a scale model of the historic … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on …
  • Heidi L. Grundke
    … 1951 was the first year Germans were allowed to emmigrate to Canada. It was only six years … left us a lot of dirt and some unwanted pets, that is fleas, mice and rats. After we flooded the basement several times, went … We earn our living mainly by cleaning and heating the house (an office building), a job that requires about six hours work daily; …
  • Karen and Canadian - Bwe Doh Soe
    Life in Canada Time 1:45 Transcript Well, I, right now, I feel like I’m becoming more like a half of Canadian I guess, because I get, because I’ve been here long enough to adopt the culture now, so. But, maybe if you were asking those questions earlier, like two years or three, I would answer …
  • Elfriede Gruber and George Novotny
    … The Sea and the Northern Lights The Second World War was a difficult time for many, and for young "inlanders" like me there was the added … being fought. But there I was, 21 years of age, and finally I had the chance to get my sea legs. It was just before Christmas, 1950, when my immigration …
  • Canada has changed me and my values
    … I look back on how Canada has changed me and my values. I think the hardest part of emigrating was changing the way … Canada has changed me and my values …
  • Charles J. Lutton
    … Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
  • Research with Newcomer Children - Monica Valencia
    Life in Canada Time 3:36 Transcript Monica Valencia: And then after that, I did my Master’s because when I was studying journalism—when you’re a journalist, you have to pick a, like, a beat you want to do—I don’t know, crime or you want to do politics. And for me, I was interested in doing …
  • The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada
    … Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by twelve-year-old Daniel Tighe and 1,489 others, two-thirds of them children . … Dublin and were boarded onto crowded ships bound for Quebec. The year was 1847. Famine , a sculpture by Rowan Gillespie located in … The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada …