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  • My Mother and I: Our Journey
    … here to Canada, because my daughter was already here. I thought that coming as a family was the right thing to do. Olena Stepanova, … when we moved here in my mind was, for instance, that my daughter was coming to live with me, and we were again a big family like we were … to go along with this idea," but as I said, I never thought, “I'm not coming back home.” Joelle Buchanan, Jamaica: Yeah, I knew why she came, …
  • 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees
    … Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
  • To Canada and Back Again: Immigration from the United States on the Underground Railroad (1840-1860)
    … Land was sold to refugees at a reduced rate and education subsidies were available. [4] Did You Know? After 1841 Upper Canada was … neutral way towards them. [5] After 1840, white citizens started to become fearful when fugitive slaves began to arrive in larger numbers. … influx of newly freed blacks once slavery was abolished. [7] Creating Community Black immigrants spread out around various towns and …
  • Jean Shephard Laffin
    … group called, The Women’s Own. They had their meetings on Wednesday afternoons. We children would go in after school just in time for a … we could walk. So my Dad relented. On the 24th of June 1944, a lovely day, and after Steve having to bail his best-man, George Nelson, out of … my surprise and delight, I realized it was my husband Steve!! He had come to take me off the ship. He then introduced me to his Uncle Bert, …
  • Amabile and Adriana Bortolotti
    … Rough crossing the Atlantic and a 2 day train ride to rejoin father. …
  • Incemore
    … be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). …
  • Munchen
    … be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). …
  • Nassau - Europa
    … be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). …
  • Nea Hellas
    … be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). …
  • Neptunia
    … be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). …

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