• Hike to Self-Rediscovery by Ardie
    … to celebrate my birthday instead of a typical party. My friends and I hiked the Grizzly Bear Creek trail to see Tombstone Valley. Along the … differs from the blueberries in a local store before we continue our hike. We stopped in the spot where we can see the valley… where I can … Hike to Self-Rediscovery by Ardie …
  • Nigel Whiteley
    … to live, in the late seventies, led to her return to Canada in 1981. We came with the War Brides, but to join my father who had come as an immigrant. As an RAF aircrew trainee, he had been a member … to make a new start here. My father had to come to Canada in 1946 via Sweden and New York in Cargo Freighters because of the shortage of …
  • Anthony Athanas
    … for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … Flora, Trinidad and Tobago. Santa Flora was a town owned by an oil company and Tony’s father worked as an x-ray technician at the oil company’s medical centre. After graduation, Tony also began working for …
  • A Ripple in the Canadian Stream by Elva
    … guest. The next day, he came back and said to Thora: “You may as well come home with me.” She needed a place and he needed a wife. They were … still farms. The neighbours were all of Icelandic ancestry and the common language in our community was Icelandic. Afi Johann lived with us and refused to speak …
  • Giovanni Guglietti
    … was if my father could go first because you needed a relationship to come to Canada. You have to have a related person. My father, we found …
  • Sounding the Bamboo by Gaehan
    … so many women, I didn’t take time for my own healing. When my mom died, the day after her burial, I had to take 30 Canadians to Korea. I …
  • The Smell of War in the Air - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 3:12 Transcript: Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ) : So … as independent states, and, and I could hear guns closer and closer coming to my place. And, and you could feel this uneasiness all around … brother. Because— MZ : Yeah. It, it— YZ : Both of them of them were soldiers. MZ : Not directly, but on different war lines, but it’s, it was …
  • Joan E. Wright
    … I met by my husband in Moncton, was introduced to his family, and then we had to live in with them until we found a place of our own. My … in the winter. Other than that I adopted ways of Canadian living and today I'm proud to be a Canadian. I am a member of the Nova Scotian War Brides Association and a member of the I.O.D.E. …
  • Marjorie Franklyne
    … Queen Mary. The date was August 8th, 1946 and she and young Johnnie, were stepping into a world as foreign as the accents that greeted them. … comfort of the staterooms, or even one of the lounges for that matter. "We couldn't go to our cabins, I don't know why, maybe they thought we …
  • The Barr/Britannia Colony, Part II
    … the east coast and then travelling by train across the country. When we left them, the colonists were just pulling out of the station at Regina, Saskatchewan, as the … trains finally arrived in Saskatoon on April 17, 1903, the colonists were greeted by C.W. Speers, the government’s Colonization Agent, who …