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… that, so this is going to be our new home. But have no idea what’s to come and where are we going. So those things we don’t know. So we—And … of thousands of people who left Laos after the country came under communist control in 1975. Chai and his parents and brothers fled to … two years. In 1980, the family was sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee to immigrate to Drake, Saskatchewan. Members of the Drake …
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… 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 part in many competitions. And I usually get the first or second place during the competition. When I was in the secondary school, I am the top 10 singer …
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… and we arrived in Orillia on April 1, 1953 on a lovely sunny day. Orillia has been home for the past 60 years. I married my … to be found..." - Christine Gerth ...Periodically, my father would come back and it was on one of these occasions that I told him that we … spoke Italian, he was not able to ask for anything else. I hungrily bit into the slice that was offered and I got the first shock in this …
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… then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … to do something to cheer myself up. I enrolled an English Class in the community center near to us. I became a student when I was 65 years … something for the society. I like to be a volunteer to pay back to the community. Every spring, we plant trees. In 2013, we knitted many …
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… one of the conditions of this sponsorship was that we marry within 30 days of my arrival in Canada. As a young woman I rarely traveled far … in the back of a truck owned by my brother-in-law. However my parents said their good-byes at the house because they could not bear the … a ship to a far-off land called Canada. I suspect that they were very sad because they thought they would not see their daughter again for a …
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… my family (parents and 2 older brothers) from the Netherlands to PEI, Canada in March of 1953. The decision to immigrate was made by my … to go on deck for fresh air to make us feel better, which was easier said than done because we were all very sea sick. As we got longer into … while my brothers stayed with my father in separate quarters. The days spent in Halifax were with friends we had made on the boat. During …
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… year. July 1, 2024 marked 25 years since we opened our doors, welcoming visitors to the National Historic site that would become today’s … concluded its run here at the Museum in January, and in April of 2026, travels to the Joseph Brandt Museum in Burlington, Ontario, the … French) For centuries now, newcomers have adapted recipes and ingredients to their new situation in Canada to some very delicious results. …
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… Time 0:02:31 Transcript I had incidents, that’s again us being a newcomer in Prince Albert, that’s later when we had the two children my … Switzerland in 1947. When Annemarie was 16, she started studying to become a home economics teacher. After four years of college, she … the Canadian government helped Heinz find a job at a manufacturing company. After one year, the couple moved to Prince Albert, …
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… In this sooty place they were like a promise of spring. Mother said that they were much too old and expensive for me; I did not agree and promised myself that some day I would walk through life on only those kinds of shoes. Onwards we … people of Canada That did not take our things, even when they had the chance? And so, at that C.N.R. station, we all started to grow the …
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… children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …