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Time 0:04:08 Transcript I was born and grew up in China worked there, retired there and it never came into my mind that I would live in Canada someday. All things were changed because of my daughter. She graduated from a famous University in Beijing in 1996, then she got a scholarship from …
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Time 0:02:41 Transcript In January 1945 my mother’s family, as Germans, fled Poland westward into Germany, trying to stay ahead of the advancing Soviet armies invading from the east. My mother’s family had to pick up everything and flee on a moment’s notice three times. Life was not easy in the …
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Time 0:03:59 Transcript I was born in Trinidad my mother died in childbirth and I was told I was the child. My grandmother Vernie came to Trinidad and took myself and my sister back to St Vincent & the Grenadines. Growing up on a coconut plantation on St Vincent I experience all form of abuse, …
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… I am a War Bride. My country, Holland, was invaded in May 1940 by the Germans. For five years it was horrible. There was so much sadness … out of the village in November 1945. I then had to wait for my turn to come to Canada. I left Holland in August, 1946 after a lot of waiting … and small children. The train was off to Montreal. That is where I said goodbye to my friends from Holland; they were going to Southern …
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… Family story written by daughter Jane David Gordon Pettifer, his wife Sheila Doreen (Bradwell) and three children: Jane (5), Anna (4) and Bob (3) took the train from Quebec City to Peterborough, Ontario to stay in a cottage in Bewdley on Rice Lake until we could buy a farm - my Dad's dream. My grandparents, William Alwyn Bradwell …
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… Pier 21 and an historic moment at what would become the gateway to Canada for nearly one million immigrants over the next 43 years. One of … Family History Centre is the Museum’s research centre where visitors can have assistance tracing their family history and immigration … A History by Steven Schwinghamer and Jan Raska, co-published by the Canadian Museum of History, the Canadian Museum of Immigration, and the …
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Time 0:02:45 Transcript From its creation out of Lake Agassiz to today, Lake Winnipeg has long been generous to those who understood its opportunity. lt has been a supplier of food to my family and other peoples from lceland who settled along its shores. Lake Winnipeg also provided the spark that …
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Time 0:04:55 Transcript You know, when you are working, life is so busy, you don’t have time to reflect. But once you’ve retired there is so much time. Actually I don’t know what to do. I have no projects, no deadlines, no place to go. I need to do something with mindfulness, but my mind feels like …
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Time 0:03:59 Transcript At this stage, the story of my life can be divided into four chapters: Chapter 1: Born in Cameroon in a family of more than 40 children and 8 different mothers. Chapter 2: I get married to a Canadian engineer. My husband, through his work in international development, helped …