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Time 0:03:08 Transcript In Canada its different than Thailand, because in Thailand we don’t wear shoes. In Thailand there are no toys you have to build your own. In Canada there are more things than Thailand. I miss my cousins and my family in Thailand. I like Canada and I like Thailand. Sometimes …
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… 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 …
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… in 1950, a year after his eldest son, Michele, was born. He first went to Belgium and then migrated to Wales early in 1951. In Wales, he … port of Naples. We arrived at Pier 21 on November 22, 1955. After a 2 day train trip, we were re-united with my father in Toronto on November …
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… months later, she began working in a bookstore. Her husband Clayton completed his doctorate and now works in a Montreal laboratory. At the …
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… foreign language in Japan and for six months, I lived in Tokyo and studied Japanese. In high school, I studied Latin, French, German and Spanish. Even though I had high marks, I … I loved learning language. I heard the language all around me and was completely involved in Japanese life, so I learned quickly to get along …
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… Our family histories are the stories that we decide to repeat and share, editing out the parts that were unclear or unseemly, and over generations those stories become our truths. But what if there was someone who could help decipher … did for my family in October 2015. By then I had been working at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 for two months and was still …
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… Apparently, there was another Mr. A. Munro traveling first class as well, who had cancelled his passage at the last minute and his luggage … how anyone could suffer from seasickness. I found out the hard way. The Empress of Canada started to plunge and roll. Many of the crew … asked for silence, and in a very compassionate voice called out: "We will take the family with the baby first." Hazel Munro (mother) Our …
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… Michele had left Sicily for Canada two years earlier to pave the way for his family’s arrival. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the best … challenging for most people, but crossing in the dawn of winter with high waves and the threat of storms known as the Gales of November may … to his parents for having the courage to leave their homeland to come to Canada to build a better life for Vito and future generations. …
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… graduation, 3 years later, I obtained, by correspondence smuggled to West Germany, a position as watch repairer in a jewelry establishment … across Germany to Landau. On arrival there I received a royal welcome from the lady of the place where I was to work, who then promptly …
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… At the time of our escape, my family was: Father: Janos Szigetvari 26; Mother: Ilona Barath-Szigetvari 25; Brother: Elemer 5; and myself, … have been told about brave soldiers and 'the things they carried'. Well, my parents carried my brother and I across the border from … more fortuitously than they could have imagined. As they made their way to the town closest to the Austrian border, my parents were …