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… 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 …
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… Chair of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. (Translated from French) I’m speaking to you from Pier 21, located in Mi’kmaki, the unceded ancestral and contemporary home of the Mi’kmaq. Thank you for joining us for the … year. July 1, 2024 marked 25 years since we opened our doors, welcoming visitors to the National Historic site that would become today’s …
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… My mother, brothers and I immigrated to Canada in 1955, nine months after my father did. We traveled on the Groote Beer in May 1955. I was eight and my brothers were eleven and thirteen. Our …
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… I was so happy that I cried, we all did. On that day when we have to come to Canada I was kind of sad because I won’t be able to play with my friend and I won’t see my relative anymore. The day we … After that we got on the airplane and flew all the way to Canada. We come to a place call welcome house in Vancouver. I was so tired I sleep …
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… (Kenneth Robert Vandenberg, 1953) “Thanks to a word of advice from my Aunt Edith Hitman, mom and dad had brought a kettle along with them … stations where we could buy food, our family ran out of bread and jam. A very kind elderly immigrant couple from Germany gave us some …
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… My father, Frank Vermeulen, worked as a veterinarian and farmer in Holland. He lost his … to try something to new, and heard that things were much better in Canada. He immigrated to Canada in March of 1927. My parents were … Sapper Tony Anton E. Vermeulen …
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… Children April 2, 1954 The move to Canada seemed imminent. My father’s parents along with some of his younger brothers and sisters …
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… Like most immigrants that migrated from war-torn Europe after W.W. II, my father Antonio was seeking a new & better life for his family. There … read, write, & speak English. At the age of 29, Antonio left Wales in May, 1954. It was his hope that Canada would offer him the opportunity …
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… In September 1948, when I was eight years old, my mother Jean, two years old sister Dorothy and I left our home in … later I was to discover we sailed across on the tail end of a hurricane. One of my first memories in landing in Halifax and leaving the …
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… Time 0:02:31 Transcript It was never my dream to come to Canada. But I wanted to live in a country with democratic … the biggest opposition party in my country, DRC Republic democratic of Congo. The opposition party wasn't allowed to march or hold meetings. … and some members of my party had been holding meetings at different places, including my house too because I had become the head of the …