• The Journey Begins by Ludee
    … what kind of food is that. The food was awful. When I came to Welcome house. I thought to myself WOW THIS HOUSE IS BIG, but then someone told us it was like an apartment. The welcome house had 3 floors. Then after staying at welcome house for a few weeks or months, they told us that we were going …
  • 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 …
  • Umeeda Switlo and Lella Umedaly
    … Switlo (US): When we were growing up we had— communities were divided in that, white people went to white schools, black kids went to … community in Uganda, very prosperous and educated. And we had a wonderful community life in many ways. Lots of religious events, the Aga … I think we really enjoyed our life in Uganda. Reasons for Leaving - Gendered Violence (Content Warning) Time 0:01:30 Transcript Interviewer: …
  • Giulio Cesare and Gabriela Maria Alessandroni
    … the Alessandroni Family had landed at Pier 21, Halifax. There they set foot to a new adventure, a new chapter of a family full of love, faith and hope. But unlike most immigrants, my family had not left to …
  • Dmitro, Anna Orleski and Family
    … wage for one year. In 1925 the family moved to a farm near Two Hills, Alberta which they rented for two years. In 1926 Steve was born. … near Kaleland. With the help of family and friends a two room log house and log chicken coop were built. The roof was thatched with …
  • Anna Teresa Alessandroni
    … the Alessandroni Family had landed at Pier 21, Halifax. There they set foot to a new adventure, a new chapter of a family full of love, faith and hope. But unlike most immigrants, my family had not left to …
  • Doris Kendall Whalen and Jacqueline
    … few hours notice to leave her home of Birkenhead, England, as someone else scheduled to leave had become ill and she was asked to be ready as … her death. Her daughter Jacqueline now resides in Colombus, Ohio, USA. She has another daughter, Betty, living in Halifax County and a …
  • Ruth Mudryk, son Dietrich Stoedter
    … Date of Entry: July 3, 1949 Port of entry: Pier 21, Halifax Ship: USAT General J. H. McRae Country of origin: Germany We left Bayreuth in Bavaria in the back of a USA Army 2 1/2 truck for the long ride to Bremen, our departure point. … I remember a thunderstorm in progress that night and I could see the hills around Halifax when the lightning flashed. I was 6 years old …
  • Striving for a Dream by Yafet
    … Time 0:03:12 Transcript I never thought I would say “No” to come to Canada until the day I actually had to leave my country. As a kid I always wanted to come to a western country, where kids had their own bedrooms and where … because we had to flee. We hid in a truck which delivers food to soldiers in the borders and we started our journey. When we got to the …
  • Walter Martin Kleinwort
    … the latter half of March. However, much to his family's surprise, a day after their departure Father unexpectedly appeared back at his … speaking skills presented challenges when it came to purchasing food. For the first time in their lives, they saw and ate bananas. … taken during this period indicated that they lived in a rundown frame house located on the farm property. It was during his Clarkson farming …