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  • Heterosexism in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1952-1978
    By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian Terminology The terminology of this paper is difficult in a few ways. It is sometimes hurtful to encounter archaic slurs and stereotypes about race and sexual orientation—and some of those are presented as part of this research. I use “queer” occasionally as …
  • Canada’s Refugee Determination System
    by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated August 21, 2020) Origins of Canada’s Refugee Determination System The origins of Canada’s refugee determination system can be traced back to 1922, when the League of Nations (a predecessor to the United Nations (UN)) established the Nansen Passport which …
  • Cescato Aldo, Renato
    … allora io mi diedi subito da fare per trovare le 70.000 lire. Tra mia madre e mio suocero trovai i soldi, cosí preparai la valiga e alla … 1998 sono andatto in italia per festiggiare il 100 compleanno di mia madre. Quest'anno a quasi 101 anni di etá mia madre é morta. Con il passare del tempo anche Nadia si comperò una casa …
  • Hunger and Hope: Irish Famine Migration to Canada
    by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction Canada is home to the fourth-largest Irish diaspora in the world . [1] According to the 2021 Canadian Census, 4,413,120 Canadians claimed full or partial Irish ethnicity. Within this population, 3,819,255 Canadians reported multiple origins, while 593,865 …
  • Gido Habib’s Ful Breakfast - Shahir Massoud
    … father, and physician—who held fast to his Egyptian roots, starting with breakfast. Every morning of his adult life started with ful mudammas. These cooked fava … Egyptians, often paired simply with bread. When I thought about tweaking this recipe to use a different bean and asked my mom for her …
  • Political Involvement and Divisiveness - Frank Scarfino
    … Life in the United States Time 0:03:04 Transcript I was one of the, yes, I … for Democratic Society. So, we were—there was a wide range of people in that group, in different campuses. Even within the SDS, Students for Democratic … Political Involvement and Divisiveness - Frank Scarfino …
  • Dirk and Hedwig van Laren
    … The final goodbyes had to be said in the departure hall just before I went through customs and check in. Dad thought that it would be a final farewell and was a bit down. I … not possible. At 4:00pm the "ms Groote Beer" cast off and we were underway. First stop was Le Havre where we arrived the following morning to …
  • Karl,Leni,Gisela,Karl,Klaus Stuhm
    … called Prislich ( Landkreis Ludwigslust im Land Mecklenburg). Times were extremely harsh as the Russians ruling East Germany took very high … his children, years later that the next day he would have been taken away to jail. In the middle of the night, my father, mother, younger …
  • The Ellen Colmer Robson Family
    … of coal in his pocket, while mother, four of my five siblings and I, were sitting around the fire waiting for the New Year to be rung in. Mother casually mentioned emigrating. She had spoken of this many …
  • Alonzi Beniamino, Liberata e Family
    … I was born in a small city of Sora (Province) Frosinone, Italy in 1940. I have one brother and two sisters. My parents were the most honest, lovable and hard working people ever. It was … Alonzi Beniamino, Liberata e Family …

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