• Virtual Field Trips
    These 30-40 minute virtual field trips, delivered live with one of our Heritage Interpreters, will dive into Canada’s immigration past. Perfect for education and community groups, and tailored for different ages. If you have questions, please contact Angelique Cishahayo by email: learn@pier21.ca or …
  • Intermediate Countries and the Separation of Family - Richard Tshimanga
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada CMIP 21 · Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 3:17 Transcript (This audio is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) I stayed in Switzerland. I appealed and the appeal was always pending this time. The appeal was always …
  • Empress of Britain - Peter Duschinsky
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 6:33 Transcript But we used to walk around the the, the hills of Salzburg. We used to watch the skiers, it was really great. And then uh, we got the okay to go to Canada, very rapidly, because, and I hadn’t mentioned this before, the third sister Boezsi …
  • An Exotic and Far Away Place - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 2:31 Transcript Yella Zahirovich (YZ): We know about Montreal mostly because of the Olympics and, I didn’t know much. Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ): I did. I, I, geography was my, uh, good subject, and it’s—I knew what I need to know. But to me it was really exotic, …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    Life in Canada Time 4:29 Transcript Madan Kumar Giri (MKG): We were sponsored by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. That’s what was written in the letter. So whatever the financial help that we were supposed to get, that was provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada—all financial help for …
  • What is Impossible with Man is Possible with God by Jules
    Time 0:04:13 Transcript There is a proverb about war: “Every person for himself and God for us all.” What I want to say is that in war you want to save your own life, and that of others after. I left the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) due to poor politics and war. I saw the bodies of …
  • The Way to My Life by Ibrahim
    Time 0:01:36 Transcript I like Cameroon because I go out around neighbourhood and no cold outside there. Everyday I go out my mother ask me to stay home but I like play outside. I like Canada now. At home we as whole family we watch TV together. We eat good food my sister Assia cook. My mother buy …
  • Do Everything in Love 1 Corinthians 16:14 by Fred
    Time 0:03:40 Transcript I was living in Uganda together with my family. I was a music producer, and I sang together with brothers and nephews. In Uganda, we were competing with many musicians, and because we were not from there, and did not speak their language, it was hard. In Sudan, everything …
  • Fifi - Winnipeg by Fifi
    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 an illness in my left leg. I was operated in a hospital in June. My life was hard, walking with someone …
  • Stereotypes Hurt by Eric
    Time 0:05:19 Transcript (Translated from French) After working very hard for days and nights on my research project, I stood up in class and started doing my presentation. My English wasn’t fluent like everyone else, and my class mate started laughing at me. I felt so disrespected, despised and …