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… gateways to understanding. People from around the world continue to come to Canada, each with an individual journey worth sharing. All continue to foster our understanding of what it means to be …
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… gear and the right attitude about the cold. Photo courtesy of Saïd Allibou. “I can’t feel my hands!” Saïd was wearing gloves. His wife, Ghita, was not. It was … It began with an eight-minute walk through a park, along the Dartmouth Commons, to the bus terminal. Both Saïd and Ghita had seen snow before, …
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… gear and the right attitude about the cold. Photo courtesy of Saïd Allibou. “I can’t feel my hands!” Saïd was wearing gloves. His wife, Ghita, was not. It was … It began with an eight-minute walk through a park, along the Dartmouth Commons, to the bus terminal. Both Saïd and Ghita had seen snow before, …
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… Regina, 1998. Bowen, Kurt. “Immigration and the Growth of the Dutch Community. The Postwar Wave and Its Predecessors.” (unpublished … Curtis, Herb. The Scholten Story . Oromocto, N.B., 1996. De Jong, Gerald. The Dutch in America 1609-1974 . Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1974. Delleman, Paul. The Dutch in Canada . Owen Sound, Ontario: Paul and …
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… May 9, 1955 as landed immigrants on the Olympia sponsored by Dad. I recall watching the streetcars for long periods of time from our bedroom … Bay Street, High Park and the Zoo. Mom gave the best birthday parties (all my Canadian friends loved Italian cooking; it was not unusual to … his own brothers during WWII War is a terrible things and this is one more reason to love this country. My dad had to leave his country …
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… never in my wildest dreams had I imagined that one day I would be travelling halfway across the world all on my own. But as circumstances turned out, … to Canada. It was a very big step because I had led a very sheltered life and never ventured out alone. Here I was embarking on a …
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… Germany. During our stay we had a final picture taken in the mess hall during supper as a remembrance. It was a dreary, cloudy and damp … liner but was a great place to spend the next few days, as it had all the latest conveniences. It was that evening when we finally got …
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… Time 0:04:01 Transcript I, originally, am from the west northern part of Iran, the country mostly known … ethnic culture and traditions and at the same time considering themselves as a member of bigger nation, which is called Iranians. My mother … I always wanted to send my children abroad for a better and higher level of education, but not as immigrant, especially not for the whole …
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… Transcript I came to Canada and then, I chose to stay. I did not come as an immigrant but I became one. I was successful and happy in my … home and I loved my family and friends. What possessed me to leave it all behind and stay in Canada? Not long after I arrived as a graduate student, the situation in Venezuela was rapidly deteriorating. As a single mother I realized that if I …
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… not easy in the first few years after the war– housing had been largely destroyed and there were few jobs and food shortages. One of my … to family still left behind how good life was saying ‘you should come!’. In 1950 my Mom and her family, having not much to look forward … for one year. My Mom committed to paying back the Lutheran Relief $265. I was astonished when I discovered the original promisory note in …