• 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 at a Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of …
  • 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 at a Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of …
  • A Scarlet Fever Quarantine and the Subsequent Adventures of a Spirited Little Girl
    … get her down. Her family’s home was quarantined due to her illness in the early days after their arrival in 1930 on the Duchess of Richmond . “Mostly I remember…the time my second brother arrived…I had scarlet fever. I can remember a crib in the kitchen and my brother was in it…our whole … A Scarlet Fever Quarantine and the Subsequent Adventures of a Spirited Little Girl …
  • Quarantined on the Journey Over to Canada
    … a half out to sea when a little girl got meningitis,” wrote Audry. “Myself and my son, with four other mums, one with two children and one … we made it work.” If the war brides as a group had a catch phrase I can’t think of anything better than “making it work”. “When we arrived … Quarantined on the Journey Over to Canada …
  • Empress of Ireland - The Model
    … by Ron Marsh, Model Builder Time 0:04:07 Transcript: Hello. My name is Ron Marsh. I am here today at Pier 21 Immigration Museum to … Empress of Ireland - The Model …
  • Perfectly Delicious
    … called eat make share: a taste of immigration , which opens May 10. Secondly, food is a big part of who we are as individuals and families, as communities, and as a country. And lastly, when the food is prepared right, eating can be one of life’s … Perfectly Delicious …
  • Perfectly Delicious
    … called eat make share: a taste of immigration , which opens May 10. Secondly, food is a big part of who we are as individuals and families, as communities, and as a country. And lastly, when the food is prepared right, eating can be one of life’s … Perfectly Delicious …
  • Margie Gouleff Vassos
    … I left Macedonia in Northern Greece in 1951 to immigrate to Canada to join my sister who was adopted by a Macedonian Canadian family. I left … second class, sharing a cabin with a lovely Macedonian family who took me under their wing, crossing the ocean in nine days and arriving in …
  • Sapper Melvin E. Clark
    … star Italy Star France Germany Star Defense of Britain Medal CVSM (Can Volunteer Service Medal) Victory Medal … September 1939 war declared 1941 - Joined the Canadian Army and trained in Petawawa, Ontario August 1941 - Left Halifax for Scotland on the Cameronia / 18 years old August 19 th , 1941 - Arrived in Scotland …
  • What is Impossible with Man is Possible with God by Jules
    … life, and that of others after. I left the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) due to poor politics and war. I saw the bodies of … people killed by gunfire and machetes who lived with us in the same village, and I was at risk of being killed myself. It took me three months to escape the Congo. I found myself in Kenya without my family. I could only think …