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… lived in those hills. If you ever caught one, your every wish would come true.” Kay was reluctant to leave her family and beloved Ireland … I had lost Nanny forever. My father was never the same after Nanny died. It seemed he was never again the happy fun loving father of my … had kept her sons in line, probably without even knowing it. Nanny had died at her daughter, Pauline’s, in Houlton, Maine, on February 10, …
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… my university, she was a professor in the university that I studied. At that time, because so many classmates, friends and relatives … and grandpa, who lived in Canada, thought it was a good time for me to come over to here and have a chance to look the other side of the … my mother at that time more than any other. I did my best to overcome my problems, made some friends and finished my program on time in …
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… model. Everything on this model is built by hand. It didn’t come out of a box. It took me, approximately, about 800 hours over a … passengers, immigrants and some cargo. The mindset is – if you feel good about it, then sit down and if you only work on it for ten minutes, you’re still …
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… growing vegetables. My parents used to tell me that in Burma the soldiers would burn all the vegetables that they grew and they have to … when she was a girl. She had to gather food for her family. She would compare to me because I can’t cook. She tells me that I have so many … that she didn’t have. My mom would tell me about how Burmese soldiers would come to her village and burn the houses. She said that they …
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… I told him when he is ready that I am always here. I feel I have accomplished my goals. My family in the Philippines is very proud of what I have accomplished in Canada. Whenever I visit them, they take me around and …
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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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… I was born in a small city of Sora (Province) Frosinone, Italy in 1940. I have one brother and two sisters. My parents were the most honest, lovable and hard … and my fondest memories was myself, at a very young age working by her side and learning how to run our store, at the same time also attending …
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… Charles Midgley was born in York, England in 1882. By age 20 he had become the head gardener for a big estate. At the same time his desire … on the land. Some simple tools may have been available but this was accomplished through hard manual labour and all this done at times during … family were very industrious and persistent people. My grandmother died the year before I was born but I had the good fortune of knowing …
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… are two organizations set up, UNHCR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and IOM (International Organization for … People chose different countries for their better life but I decided come to Canada because I heard Canada is safe, peace and people are … to PEI, happy to be living together with my family and thanks to Newcomers to Canada (PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada) for …
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… October 15, 2020) Introduction: Canadian Customs before and after the Second World War In May 2015, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at … opened new exhibitions on the history of the Pier 21 National Historic Site of Canada and the history of immigration to Canada. This blog is … 1938, Gerda Kiel notes that her father “bought a farm 2 ½ miles south of Falun, [Alberta] with money he brought from Europe (Poland). …