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  • No Chop Suey in China - and other food stories
    … Chinatown. What were these dishes, she wondered. Why were they so common in Canadian Chinese restaurants, and what was their origin? … were created by people who were not necessarily cooks, using the ingredients available to them and trying to cater to a North American … sectors. Among the few places they could work were laundromats, convenience stores and restaurants. “They didn't even necessarily know how …
  • No Chop Suey in China - and other food stories
    … Chinatown. What were these dishes, she wondered. Why were they so common in Canadian Chinese restaurants, and what was their origin? … were created by people who were not necessarily cooks, using the ingredients available to them and trying to cater to a North American … sectors. Among the few places they could work were laundromats, convenience stores and restaurants. “They didn't even necessarily know how …
  • Quarantined on the Journey Over to Canada
    … Halifax with her baby was frightening for British war bride Audrey (Hawes) Doyle Ash. Audrey was onboard the Queen Mary when she and Patrick were put into isolation with others. “We were a day and a half out to sea when a little girl got meningitis,” wrote … Quarantined on the Journey Over to Canada …
  • Anna Spaunberg
    … Departed Dec 19-1926, arrived Pier 21 Halifax, December 28 1926. Our 9 day voyage – Mother with 3 children ages 6, 4, 2, I was the oldest – … of a tree and gifts for all the children. One trip to the dining area, we were unable to eat as our plates got away from us. Good thing the …
  • Signs of Agency in Refugee Narratives
    … people who experience war, violence or trauma – are also agents who can exert control in situations defined mostly by control being taken … about Czeslaw Tomaszewski’s wartime experiences and his decision to come to Canada; the courage of Lynda Dyck, also during the Second World War; …
  • Domenico Ciolfitto
    … After thirteen days at sea, we finally arrived in Halifax, Canada; myself, my mother, my grandmother and my younger brother Tony. The day that we arrived was also my 13th birthday and to me 13 is always and remains …
  • Antonino Masciotra
    … I arrived at Halifax as immigrants with our parents on March 7, 1955. We travelled from Naples Italy aboard SS Saturnia, to Palermo, to … we looked like a herd of people. My parents remembered that day, and told me that they will never forget it. They did not know what …
  • Pauline and Armand Dubue and Family
    … bravely came, along with my good friend, to help me with the children. We said our tearful good-byes and then I was on my own with a great … wash diapers and baby bottles. We got through it though and the next day we were put on buses to take us to Southampton" from there we …
  • Jean Wilson
    … In September 1948, when I was eight years old, my mother Jean, two … in Broughty Ferry, Scotland, on our journey to Southampton, England. We were to sail on the Aquitania to Halifax and travel on to Dundas, …
  • Bruno and Rosanna Bellissimo
    … that they left their homeland to bring their family to Canada so that we could have a better life. This is my story: Together with my mother … went back to Italy to visit in 1967. I have never been back. One day I hope to go and see the little town where I was born. The "Conte …

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