-
… Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter. Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
-
… Herman Blom had secured a job as a welder in Saskatoon and the family was on their … brother Wally. “We were the last passengers to leave the ship as Wally had come down with the German measles and we were put into quarantine,” … of us are trying to do, they found humour in little everyday things, well maybe not everyday things unless you play a lot of Hot Potato. …
-
… I arrived at Pier 21 on the beautiful Aquitania on March 23rd of 1946. The … on a platform was a silver band playing 'The Maple Leaf Forever'. We had wonderful Red Cross Ladies there to guide us on which train to take, as some warbrides were going out west and many of us going to Montreal and me to Belleville. At …
-
… and friendliness of teachers and children helped a lot. “Alas, however, they didn’t go for more than a week before Martin & John developed unusual coughs … to keep their distance. “I found this a little hard to bear as I had never been one to let my children loose with infectious diseases. …
-
… moved by this re-creation and the wonderfully, moving story line; well done. How wonderful it would be to have more written storylines of the new … the Abbey, and he was a POW for 11 months and worked the gas chambers while threatened with death: WHAT A JOY TO SEE PIER 21 AGAIN! My mother …
-
… known as Jan Willem. I vividly recall boarding the S.S. Waterman. I can still see my mother standing between many people as I was thinking if I would ever see her again. She took a deep breath and I could see her pain. I will remember … last goodbye. The crossing took eight days with my son bunking with me while my husband bunked with some other men elsewhere on the ship. My …
-
… It stayed in the Cornwall area for two years and learned first hand how tough it was to be a stranger in a new country. Poverty, … An eighth child, Freda, was born in 1954. In May 1955, the family again packed up and moved to southwestern Ontario, to the town of …
-
… found to be suffering from leprosy or an infectious disease, as well as any Chinese woman known to be a prostitute. Amendments to the … a demand for labour, and by the 1890s, Chinese immigrants were once again arriving in Canada by the thousands. Increased Chinese … to deter Chinese immigration and levels remained as high as they had been in previous years. By 1903, the number of Chinese arriving in …
-
… was three, I was five and my brother was eight. I never saw my father again. He wrote to us from England. I still have all his letters, but he had to be very careful what he wrote in case the enemy got hold of his letters. He didn’t phone. In those days, no one phoned …
-
… decided to travel to Canada. I stayed in Chile with my two-year-old son, waiting for the moment we would join him. My husband arrived in … denied us Canadian residency. We hired a lawyer to appeal, and he recommended that we move to Toronto. In Toronto, we had to start from … to support a new law to avoid this type of fraud from happening again. The Ministry made a video about our story, which is on their …