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In the Museum’s Pier 21 Story exhibition of the Museum, there is a section called Treasures From Home, with artifacts and props representing what immigrants brought with them as sailed to Canada. The objects are contained in a large wooden case and include many different objects: a bicycle, a pair …
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In the Museum’s Pier 21 Story exhibition , there is a section called Treasures From Home , with artifacts and props representing what immigrants brought with them as they sailed to Canada. The objects are contained in a large wooden case and include many different objects: a bicycle, a pair of …
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… The Thiessen family wearing luggage tags, September 1950, DI2013.848.2. Hundreds of … political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags … “This Is An Emotional Place” - The Notes They Left Behind …
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… The Thiessen family wearing luggage tags, September 1950, DI2013.848.2. Hundreds of … political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags … “This Is An Emotional Place” - The Notes They Left Behind …
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… Time 0:04:28 Transcript When Israel attacked the people of Palestine, they took my parents town … and seven brothers. For me it was a beautiful life with my whole family around me. We had no citizenship there, but the government helped … A New Home by Elham …
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… Time 0:02:19 Transcript It wasn’t my decision to leave my country, it was because of illness. Sometimes my leg hurt a lot when I was a child in Burundi. I could not walk well but sometimes it was … it was my first time getting sick. My mother started the process of coming to Canada because I was gravely ill. After a bit of time I came …
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… Mrs. Nancy Archibald, a War Bride, lives in Victoria BC. In August 2011, she celebrated her 90th birthday as … Archibald. Nancy Belle Archibald (nee Chester) OUR JOURNEY TO CANADA (May 1946) (A WWII War Bride's letter to her parents recounting her …
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… In September 1948, when I was eight years old, my mother Jean, two years old sister Dorothy and I left our home in … later I was to discover we sailed across on the tail end of a hurricane. One of my first memories in landing in Halifax and leaving the …
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… Becoming a Refugee Time 2:41 Transcript I was very young, and I wasn’t … so hard, and he grabbed some of the belonging, and, we ran away. And then we were—because I was a—I was very young, so I didn’t know, but now …
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… From Tyranny to Freedom The Ivan and Anna Zadan Family History May 8 th , 1945 the air was fresh and the taste of freedom was … to live together. Everything changed on May 8 th 1945, World War II had come to an end in Europe. A cease fire order was in place, and the …