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May 4 to December 31, 2023 In 2022, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands published a graphic novel called "Destination: Canada”, telling the story of ten Dutch immigrants, illustrated by ten comic book artists. The Museum has adapted two of these stories for a special exhibit, …
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… Time 0:03:39 Transcript Here I am. Visiting my homeland 23 years later. I was born and raised in Germany. In East Germany, to be more … people here in the Yukon, I began to believe in myself. I learned to become a professional child care worker and after years I decided to go …
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… I am a War Bride. My country, Holland, was invaded in May 1940 by the Germans. For five … 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 … Hendrikje Scheffers Merkley …
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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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… left Southampton on the ship "Aquitania", I disembarked in Halifax on May 1st, 1946. I can remember the band on shore playing "Here comes the bride". And the kind welcome we received. Canada has been good to me. Although, I was very homesick, having grown up in Brighton, Sussex, …
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… a totally new life in a strange country with nobody by my side. When I landed in Toronto, I had no job, no money, no friends or family. The … Finally I got a break- a job in faraway Nova Scotia. Then I started to connect with people at work. I performed at the college International … the way for other jobs as well but they were all temporary and I was constantly on the move. It gave me a chance to see & understand …
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… to be accepted. As an adult, I witnessed discrimination against black people, and Indian people. One time, I listened to the people … is your last name and where you were born. I would think, what kind of conversation would happen behind my back? My husband was working for a Canadian engineering company who offered him a job in Montreal. This was the kind of …
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… and my sister back to St Vincent & the Grenadines. Growing up on a coconut plantation on St Vincent I experience all form of abuse, hunger and I can now say slavery. When I got older, I found work in the hotel industry as a …
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… every day when I woke up in the houses made of twisted trees with plastic on top. Most people at the camp want to be resettled but it’s … from my friend: my name was on the UNHCR notice board for resettlement consideration. I called my wife to give her the good news. I stopped … and hugged everybody to share my feeling. I left the school to confirm the notice board. I called my wife to tell her that I actually …
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… but the account my fate was written with tears. I was born in a village of India in Uttar Pradesh. I lost my father when I was only two. … like David Copperfield. But I never gave up my studies. In order to continue my studies I had to do private coaching and sometime pulling … forced to leave my job. After, few months another Board, hired me as a community relation officer. In this position I had great satisfaction …