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Time 0:02:18 Transcript When I heard the announcer call my dad name and other people to go to Canada I was so happy. I was so happy that I cried, we all did. On that day when we have to come to Canada I was kind of sad because I won’t be able to play with my friend and I won’t see my relative …
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Time 0:02:10 Transcript I was born in Cela. I can’t remember about Cela but my mom told me that it was a beautiful place all our family lived in Cela and we all lived close together, they all had animals, they planted foods, and all ate together. Then the journey begins. My mom told me that my …
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Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Margaret Adu, Honorary Consul Ghana and former president of the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Calgary arrived in Alberta in 1993. Margaret is an award winning architect. She’s the founder and managing director of Aomega Group Inc.—a group of local …
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Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Leo Johnson spent eight years in refugee camps after fleeing war-torn Liberia in 1998. He arrived in Canada in 2006. Leo was a semi-finalist in CBC’s Next Great Prime Minister Competition. He’s also received the YMCA Peace Medal and the World …
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Animated by Grace An Music by Sigmund Washington Thy Anne Chu Quang is from Vietnam and now lives in Montreal. She's a project coordinator for the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach. She’s worked on projects with the French Solidarity Priority Fund and the French Agency for Development. Return to …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Dr. Zak El-Ramly came to Canada on a student visa in 1969 from Egypt. He landed in Ottawa, where he completed a master’s degree in combustion engineering and a PhD in aeronautical engineering at Carleton University. He later became a …
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Animated by Grace An Music by Sigmund Washington Daniel came from Peru at the age of ten. He was born without his one arm and right leg. He started CREATIVE//SOCIAL. The organization uses data and online systems to manage customer service relations and business operations out of Calgary, Alberta. …
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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Bänoo Zan is a self-exiled poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator with numerous published pieces and three books. Songs of Exile was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Letters to My Father was …
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Adjusting Well to Life in Canada Time 0:01:44 Transcript TA: —it was—it was—exciting. I mean, after we got over the—the—the uncertainty it was, like, you know what, resolve yourself that this is (claps) where you’re going to be for the next little while, right. There’s no turning back so might as …
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Swastika Painted on Her House 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 daughter was two so it was in ’76, we bought our first little house and we moved, and my husband and I at home we speak …