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  • Need a community? Join a rugby club.
    … Santiago Forteza with his wife Sophie and daughter Fabiola after a team … arrived from Buenos Aires to Quebec City speaking no French . He’d come to do a Masters Degree at the Université Laval. It was 1988. “I … country with deep rugby roots known for playing in an exciting flamboyant style known as le French flair .) International squad The players …
  • Need a community? Join a rugby club.
    … Santiago Forteza with his wife Sophie and daughter Fabiola after a team … arrived from Buenos Aires to Quebec City speaking no French . He’d come to do a Masters Degree at the Université Laval. It was 1988. “I … country with deep rugby roots known for playing in an exciting flamboyant style known as le French flair .) International squad The players …
  • Life in the Refugee Camp, Families and Friends with Hope by Duke
    … Time 0:02:15 Transcript Two weeks ago, Herv ask me if I want to talk about how I came to Canada.. At home I thought what to say… In my country when the Burmese attack our land we were so worried that we couldn’t even … us. The reason why we came to Canada is not because we just like to come. We came because our life is in danger and sometime the Burmese …
  • Eileen Way
    … In 1947 I felt that there was not much future for me in Ireland as the economy was very depressed. I decided to immigrate to Canada. My mother …
  • A Letter to Ify by Patricia
    … Time 0:03:37 Transcript My darling "Ify bay... bay ", It is said that everyone has a story: How true! My immigration story is not complete without you! it is already 365 days since you left us. My … it! I came into Canada in Jan 2003, and in July I met you at the student orientation at centennial college. You approached me and said “Hi, …
  • Vice-Admiral Douglas S. Boyle
    … Story Our father, Douglas Seaman Boyle, was born November 29, 1923 in the landlocked Rocky Mountain town of Revelstoke, British Columbia. His middle name, prophetic as it turned out to be, was his mother’s family name. Susan Ann Dorothy and Allan Douglas Boyle, his parents, had immigrated to …
  • What is Meaningful Life by Theresa
    … Time 0:04:40 Transcript My hometown is a little town which is in Guangdong province, … where there is lots of people immigrated to Canada because the golden rush and railroad construction around nineteenth century. When I … you are part of this society, and you also can make this country become better. Return to Charlottetown …
  • A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary
    … before its opening 25 years ago. Museum staff had noticed something strange in the Pier 21 exhibition - a discrepancy in dates. In a display case, amongst a collection of luggage brought by people immigrating to Canada through the Halifax seaport, was an old suitcase with the name … A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary …
  • A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary
    … before its opening 25 years ago. Museum staff had noticed something strange in the Pier 21 exhibition - a discrepancy in dates. In a display case, amongst a collection of luggage brought by people immigrating to Canada through the Halifax seaport, was an old suitcase with the name … A mystery, archival film footage, an old suitcase, and a 75th anniversary …
  • Workers from the Philippines in Western PEI
    … job at the plant was on the nighttime cleaning crew. After about a year, she transferred to the food handling division of the plant. Her …

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