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… Imagine going to a school in a new country where you don’t speak the language. Where the teaching methods and curriculum are different. Where you don’t know anybody. The Museum’s collection features lots of …
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Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 2:31 Transcript Yella Zahirovich (YZ): We know about Montreal mostly because of the Olympics and, I didn’t know much. Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ): I did. I, I, geography was my, uh, good subject, and it’s—I knew what I need to know. But to me it was really exotic, …
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… Reflections of a Radar Operator I was asked to tell you what I did during World War 2. When I was 19 years old, I was notified, as were all others my age in England, to attend an interview to decide what I would be … sworn to an oath of secrecy which was not fully lifted for 50 years. Can you imagine in this day and age, something involving so many people …
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… Time 0:02:48 Transcript This very morning, I was explaining the meaning of the word … can also be understood as a social disconnection between people. I come from 2 stories: my parents didn’t grow up in the same country. My … year traveling, working and living in other countries: Finland, Libya, Spain and Gabon. In the end, Canada, in all its diversity, was the …
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… Ship Name: Groote Beer Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: May 1, 1958 Age on Arrival: 23 The story of Jan J.H. Schoo and Joan J.A. Greenfield My father, Jan Schoo, (photo 1) was born on November 14, 1935 in …
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… THE TALE OF A UKRANIAN IMMIGRANT Irene Turczyniak I was born in Western Ukraine in 1924 in the village in Bohatkiwci. I lived there until I finished elementary school. Then, my parents enrolled me in high school in the picturesque city of …
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… Country of Origin : England Ship Name : Letitia Port of Departure : Liverpool, England Date of Departure : May 28, 1946 Port of Entry : Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia Date of … Joan Winifred Gallant …
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… Swastika Painted on Her House Time 0:02:31 Transcript I had incidents, that’s again us being a newcomer in Prince Albert, that’s later when we had the two children my … Annemarie Buchmann-Gerber …
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… Preserving your digital memories With the holidays fast-approaching, it’s the … is a big priority for the Museum, but there are some simple steps you can take to make sure your personal memories are kept safe for … a file not opening, or getting lost as you transfer to a new device. You may even still have files on floppy disks! These types of …
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… that we have to use other ways, which tend to be less detailed and can lead us down the wrong path or to “dead ends.” However, not every … is a good example of that. It all began when I came to work one day in May 2012 to discover this lovely email from a gentleman in England: … married Albert Richardson in Hendon, UK in 1942 and they had 2 sons, Ian M J (1948) and Peter A O (1950). The family is known to have …