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… The year 2021 marks 110 years since my father’s uncle left his hometown of Fagagna, in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia …
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Citizenship and Belonging to a Country Time 0:02:27 Transcript ES: The day of the ceremony—first they give you a test and then after they say if you pass or not, and we pass the test, and then after we went to the ceremony that for us is for something new because well we have to be in front of all …
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… My name is Luigi and I would like to share the story of my dad Nicola … the beginning of a new and prosperous life and Nicola thought it was a chance he had to take. He would have to leave behind his parents Luigi … He had been in Ottawa 3 years and felt it was time for his Dad to join him. Macy's would help sponsor his father and he would arrive in …
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… church in Gartocharn, near Loch Lomond. Shortly afterwards, on August 19th, 1942, Chub was sent into action at Dieppe and captured. He spent … how much Becky's letters meant to his spirits. Chub was liberated on May 2nd, 1945 and was repatriated to Canada in July, where he was … log house, I guess when Chub had to spend so much time in Deer Lodge [the veteran's hospital in Winnipeg]. With her twinkly smile and wit …
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… thing is you’re open-minded, okay. Uh you have to look at Canada do welcome you, okay. You have to come, again, not thinking what you had, … not what you already had. And I think that’s a big difference. The second part is that: Uh don’t have high expectation that—high expectation … going to be today, two thing: either cake decorator or businessman (laughing), right. We are asking the kids, today, right. So, uh, based …
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… interaction they’ve had with Canadians as learning experiences to continuously refine our proud Canadian identity. In the early 1970’s, … of the political strife that was continuing to grow back home in Kampala, Uganda. Shortly after completing their education and returning home, they gathered their …
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… time, now it is Western Ukraine), in 1936 of ethnic German parents. My ancestors emigrated to Volhynia from Central Poland where they were born in the 19th century. In 1939, after Russia and Germany partitioned Poland, we …
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… Pier 21 in their Will. Frances Swyripa “The last time I rewrote my will…I locked in the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21… it was a way to honour the immigrant stories in my own family.” —Frances Swyripa, Legacy Donor Frances Swyripa My mother liked writing wills. She redid hers repeatedly over her …
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… Life in Canada Time 2:37 Transcript (This video is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) I have to say that what's important, what was … asked questions of course. In other words, survival strategies, or a plan B, were always there, you know? Sometimes it was, uhm, a pack of …