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  • If Luggage Could Talk…
    … as a Visitor Experience Interpreter here at the Museum is helping people imagine the experience of being an immigrant during the time that … the image, in the top right-hand corner, I notice a washing machine (complete with an attached hand-operated clothes wringer!). For some of …
  • Angelo and Livia Paladino
    … were introducing various women they thought he would be suited to. His interests however were not in staying in Italy. It was around … a Canadian citizen. He was able to sponsor three of his brothers to come to Canada as well. He had four children and seven grandchildren … was very close to her dad and it was a very sad farewell. The ship stopped at several other ports in Europe before crossing the ocean. The …
  • By Sea or Land: Refugees or Displaced Persons - Van-Nha Tran
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 3:23 Transcript (This video is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) Yes, …
  • Grace Penner
    … Learning English Time 0:00:42 Transcript So then I got this job at a … into Spanish, and then write your homework that way. That’s how I learned English. I didn’t have an aide here telling me, “This is how … be approved for a green card in the United States, they applied to come to Canada as refugees. The family qualified for refugee status due …
  • Artist-in-Residence 2024 - Annie Valentina
    … summer/fall 2025. Annie holds a BA in Theatre from Dalhousie University and is a past Merritt Award nominee for her 2014 play Alien . She …
  • Why Do I Move to Canada? by Bill
    … the other hand: I came to Canada in order to realize my dream. I was become closer to my dream: to be a singer. When I was grade 6, I take … am the top 10 singer from grade 7 to grade 9, and I hope one day I can learn how to play guitar, and how to write a good song. Because I like …
  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    … at the Museum, where he has been creating/curating a collection of artworks, stories and recipes. He is a graduate of the Nova … keep in regular contact because "it just seems like random things come up where I have to edit my identity from the ways that I remember …
  • How eating dirt shaped one man's relationship with food
    … at the Museum, where he has been creating/curating a collection of artworks, stories and recipes. He is a graduate of the Nova … keep in regular contact because "it just seems like random things come up where I have to edit my identity from the ways that I remember …
  • Xianqin Yang
    Difficulty of Being a TA Time 0:02:42 Transcript XY: Um. My school started in January the eighth I believe. Um, the study was okay because I think that we were only required to take, three to five courses, of the courses they were fine, not difficult, and the research I am always interested in …
  • Ivy Edie Stevenson Williamson
    … Reason for entry into Canada: War bride Date of Entry: August 19, 1946 City of entry: Halifax, Nova Scotia Name of ship: Lady Nelson Country … My mother’s name was Ivy Edie Stevenson and she was born on January 26th, 1927 to Charles and Caroline Stevenson. She was 1 of 13 children …

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