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… Van Luxemburg Seiferling came to arrive in Canada through Pier 21 on her way to her life in Saskatchewan, as recalled by her children. Born in Kaatsheuvel, Holland in 1924, Mum often talked about how her later teen …
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… Stuhm Family Immigration History My Father Karl and my Mother Leni, farmed in East Germany, in a small village … farmers. My father was one of those farmers. My father resisted what seemed to him to be highly unfair and unjust practices. It was … window but was not allowed contact. Years later my mother told me that she would bring milk to the hospital for me to drink. In East Germany …
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… known as Jan Willem. I vividly recall boarding the S.S. Waterman. I can still see my mother standing between many people as I was thinking if I would ever see her again. She took a deep breath and I could see her pain. I will … Johanna Schel …
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… in front of Grandma’s house. I couldn’t believe it. There was a for sale sign in front of the ginkgo tree that I remembered from 1947. I made … an hour, I was touring my own dear grandma’s kitchen where she pulled wonderous things out of the oven of the huge old wood stove. Here … loved the bright orange lifebuoy soap. Grandma’s house was warm and welcoming. She was too. And I was shocked when I was six and she suddenly …
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… age of 31, I boarded the S.S. Neptunia at Bremerhafen, Germany. I had left behind an ugly war, time spent in a Russian prison, and had an … the wide open Atlantic. It was not built to withstand the rough seas we encountered. The ten people eating at our dining room table …
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… Here in the Collections department, much of our work focuses on Digital … Preservation is a way of keeping digital material alive so that they can be accessed long into the future, even as the technological tools … does the work to monitor all the bits and bytes of digital content, there is still a lot of preparation needed to make sure the transfer …
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… myself. Because all I saw was just my eyes. And I was saying, People must be wondering what’s wrong with that girl. And then I wasn’t … she earned a master’s degree in international business management. While working on her master’s degree, Clarecia moved to Barbados to intern … to live. Clarecia immigrated to Toronto, Ontario in 2005. She had trouble finding work in Toronto and spent the next two years going back and …
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… Hendrik travelled from Nieuwleusen, Netherlands to Le Havre, France, where he boarded a ship called … Hendrik Jan Boer …
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… to end in the end of April there. I was home two weeks and I got a letter from the government saying to report to Portland, Maine for your … still do, always did—born with them. I had flat feet and a hearing problem. I wear a hearing aid now, but I didn’t then. And I was lucky. I … used to somehow do you in too, because apparently a lot of guys would complain about back problems, you know, carrying your backpacks and all …
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… Welcome to Turtle Island , a new artistic installation by Melinda Robertson and Shannon Monk, has been installed on the glass map of Canada in the Museum’s Canadian Immigration … Turtle Island is a name for North America used by many Indigenous Peoples. The artwork is made up of 71 miniature artworks in glass , with …