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… Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter. Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
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… know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day." A song shared by both Gracie and Vera Lynn. The silence on the … taking messages to various offices in London as required, but to this day, I can't recall even one request to do so. Jack and I both carried …
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… important. It answers a lot of questions, not only for the greater community but for the African Nova Scotian and Black Canadian community. Here at the Black Cultural Centre, when we would have school … by somebody else. That there was no freedom. I hope it will spawn future exhibits and more research, because this is only scratching the …
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… why I work with the Immigrant Workers Center and focus on South Asian Communities. So I can let them know what their rights are in the … was a refugee in Burkina Faso Togo, Liberia, Nigeria and Turkey before coming to Canada in 2016. That’s when my story in Canada begins.” … They are both volunteer social workers who work with the South Asian community in Montreal. Balkar Singh Balkar Singh, along with his wife …
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… lived in those hills. If you ever caught one, your every wish would come true.” Kay was reluctant to leave her family and beloved Ireland … I had lost Nanny forever. My father was never the same after Nanny died. It seemed he was never again the happy fun loving father of my … had kept her sons in line, probably without even knowing it. Nanny had died at her daughter, Pauline’s, in Houlton, Maine, on February 10, …
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… important. It answers a lot of questions, not only for the greater community but for the African Nova Scotian and Black Canadian community. Here at the Black Cultural Centre, when we would have school … by somebody else. That there was no freedom. I hope it will spawn future exhibits and more research, because this is only scratching the …
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… June 6, 1955 I came to Canada from a small Italian town in central Italy. I arrived on June 12, 1955 on the Queen Frederica. I followed my father, who had come to Canada in 1952 because of the poor economic conditions at home. The trip for me was very dramatic. The day that I boarded the ship on June 4, 1955, was a very sad one. My …
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… known as Jan Willem. I vividly recall boarding the S.S. Waterman. I can still see my mother standing between many people as I was thinking … of not knowing if we were doing the right thing in immigrating to Canada. My husband was a blacksmith by trade and had been working in … we landed in Halifax and took the train to Toronto. It was not easy to find work due to the language barrier, nor was it easy to find …
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… December 24, 1986 (on her birthday) at the age of 79. She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery on Niagara Street and Woodlawn Road in Welland Ontario. John Yarosh, born Joannes Jarosz on January 26, 1905 in the village of Dubowce, Tarnopol, Austria, to Terentius … Ontario on July 19, 1992 of heart failure at age 87, and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery on Niagara Street and Woodlawn Road in Welland, …
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… In 1953, when you came to Canada, you had to have the following: 1. - Passport 2. - German I.D. … we were going to the Carnival in West Germany, in hopes this would suffice. Each of us only had $5.00, which was about all we had to our name, … ocean. When we arrived in Halifax on March 7th, all we could see was ice. Every nut and bolt of the ship was covered in ice. This was …