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  • Volunteers at the Pier
    … Writer Published on 01/12/2021 December 5 is International Volunteer day. This is the story of a connected chain of volunteers who have … regardless of their religion, she and her husband Morris, who owned a food service business, donated boxes of food to the new arrivals. One … for the Museum in 2015. Like Debbie, she is still volunteering today. The Museum’s Volunteer Program is presented by Scotiabank. Staff …
  • Life in the Refugee Camp, Families and Friends with Hope by Duke
    … us. The reason why we came to Canada is not because we just like to come. We came because our life is in danger and sometime the Burmese troops come up. When I was three years old I moved to Bangkok to get a special … myself and I thought there was a clone of me in the mirror. In the welcome house, I saw all of the toys and food but I didn’t like any of …
  • Maria (Nobile) Harvey
    … The Trans-Atlantic Passage of Rosa (Mulé) Nobile and Daughters Maria & Carmela When my sister Carmela and I found out that we had been accepted to immigrate to Canada, we climbed on the bed and jumped and jumped for joy. In my 10 … is that any time we tried to sit on deck chairs, a steward would come along and tell us to leave, telling us that those chairs were for …
  • Angelo and Livia Paladino
    … on Arrival: 23 // 22 Angelo This is the story of my father, Angelo Paladino and his immigration to Canada. Angelo was born in Santa Croce Di … this time that he saw a photograph of a beautiful young woman at the house of one of her relatives in the next town. When he found out she … a Canadian citizen. He was able to sponsor three of his brothers to come to Canada as well. He had four children and seven grandchildren …
  • Thomas J. Duiverman
    … Single Men and Women July 9, 1953 – Waterman My five day journey from Rotterdam, The Netherlands on the ship SS Waterman was … Ontario. It was good that I did not understand too much English, but I can remember him using the term "S.O.B." directed at me. So I was … gifts for friends who immigrated earlier. At long last we got warm food, which I mistakenly thought was spaghetti and it turned out to be …
  • Amerigo Lupinacci
    … even one word of English. Nevertheless, I survived as did everyone else. I was fortunate because I had support here in Toronto. My family …
  • Empress of Ireland - Painting the Mural
    … seeing. So it’s a recognizable silhouette of Quebec City, with the hills going up and then you see the fortress, the Château Frontenac. … ready to feel what it was like maybe to have been on the ship. You can experience their last view as they’re sailing away. And then, as you go through the exhibit you can feel what it would have been like to be on the ship and …
  • Changing Awareness - Peter Seixas
    … be, and it was the best, and it was the most important and, everything else was just foreign lands. By late high school, I started to have a …
  • Anyone Could Be a Refugee; No One Chooses To Be a Refugee
    … When there is a war in a country, it can become difficult for its citizens to leave... People lose their … up in Burundi during the civil war, where there was violence every day, my family faced so many difficulties but… we managed to stay. … home. They lived in miserable conditions. In the camps, there was no food. The camps were heavily overcrowded and those who fell sick did …
  • Chairuth Bouphaphanh
    Child's Perspective and Introduced to New Food Time 0:02:02 Transcript CB: Yeah, yeah my parents said, “This is going to be our new home.” But they don’t know anything and I don’t know—it’s like we’re going to unknown. Like they said, “This is going to be our new home.” And that’s it. We don’t know …

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