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… is a village called Diman. It’s small. There are 650-700 registered residents. You can walk from one corner to the other in around 20 … neighbourhood is named after his grandson. Edward was the founding President of the Canadian Lebanon society in 1938 and was killed while … shortly after Abraham Arab. She says, “in our culture, it would be considered a sin to get married and have children if you can’t provide for …
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… there. WOW! It sounded like a great place to visit. Subsequently one day in August I found myself leaving home with my parents on the way to … were driven out into the country to a school with a large gymnasium. Inside there were many rows of cots, spaced about 4 feet apart, and only … in the distance, until the CORB escorts arrived and ordered us back to bed. The next afternoon we boarded the buses again and headed for the …
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… name of a country from a bowl (three countries were chosen -- America, South America and Canada). Canada won out, 3 consecutive times! On the way over here they said that they were going to raise their children as real Canadians, … 1910 when they converted to the Baptist faith. Catherine (who had come from Austria) had asked for professional people to help populate …
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Sketch of the Woodside Tavern by Mary Louise Doyle. Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern is a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be …
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Sketch of the Woodside Tavern by Mary Louise Doyle. Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern is a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be …
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… also sing there too. One time the Karen youth in Langley did a singing competition. I signed my name on a list and they pick me. On that day I … I went back to Thailand to help my people. In my dream I don’t want to come back in Canada because all the kids in the camp want me to stay there forever but my family want me to come back in Canada. At that moment I asked my brother to make a song …
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… England to escape detection by the German air force. They met by chance in High Wycombe and quickly fell in love. Not long after, on … trip across the Atlantic to join her new husband in Canada. The five-day crossing aboard the Queen Mary seemed like an eternity for Nancy, … land. She knew no one in the country that was to be her new home, aside from her husband. Still on her own, Nancy and her unborn child …
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Time 0:04:18 Transcript Perhaps growing up in a military lifestyle gave me the courage to face new environments and an adventurous spirit to explore the world. And yet, 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 …
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… Poland was restricted in terms of having a decent living. Up to this point there were two classes of people; the very rich and very poor. A … a stable, young and growing country, which was enticing immigrants to come to Canada and help to develop. Finally on April 14, 1928, Dad, his … into the cabin and Mom would ask, what are we going to do with them? I said I wanted to take off these pretty outfits that were posted on …
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… how to speak English. He noticed that his friends had an ID tag that said Bassano, Alberta and his did not. He saw a person sleeping on a … Bassano working on the railroad as a worker and also cut hair on the side. One day a Poole Construction truck came by and said they needed a few men …