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  • Digital Preservation in the Collection
    … 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 …
  • Statistics - Netherlands
    … 131252 1905 389 141465 1906 394 211653 1907 1212 272409 1908 480 143326 1909 570 173694 1910 1036 286839 1911 1080 331288 1912 1359 375756 … 1922 118 64224 1923 798 133729 1924 1821 124164 1925 1020 84907 1926 1643 135982 1927 2066 158886 1928 1569 166783 1929 1252 164993 1930 … 26 10 36 Denmark 7 1 8 Germany 6 0 6 Norway 1 0 1 North Africa 1 0 1 South Africa 1 0 1 Greece 1 0 1 Algiers 1 0 1 Hungary 0 3 3 Russia 1 0 …
  • Clarecia Christie
    … 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 …
  • Grandma's House by Lynda
    … 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 …
  • Ralph, Sheila, Keith, Denis Fuller
    … on the Empress of France from Liverpool, England. We travelled to the South of Ireland as the sea to the North was too rough for their normal route at a speed of 26 knots. Ralph had a job waiting with George A. Chase in Sussex, N.B. …
  • Concetta DeGasperis
    … town of Sora, Frosinone. On February 11, 1960, Concetta along with her mother Rosina, her sister Mary and brothers, Antonio & Carlo, boarded the … A year later, Concetta's life would again change dramatically when she met the man who would become her dance partner for life, Giovanni …
  • New Life in Canada by Pelaypaw
    … to Canada. At first I thought she was joking. My parents wanted to leave the camp because they wanted us to be out of the danger zone. … my friends. After the many bus rides and plane rides, we arrived at Welcome House. The house was very different from the houses in Thailand. I … to go to school 3 months after. I was really scared when the teacher introduced me to the class. All of the kids stared at me. I was …
  • The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885
    … from the $10 duty recommended by the commission. This became the first piece of Canadian legislation to exclude immigrants on the basis of …
  • Leonard Palmer
    … The Early Years Leonard Palmer was born on September 19, 1913 in … farming was imperiled. He was accepted for the program, which would pay passage to Canada and $10 a month and board. Off to Canada - The … station. Leonard’s station was last, at Iona. He walked to the dock where he took a boat to Baddeck, his final destination. At the dock in …

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