• The First Step is Always the Hardest by Kelvin
    … Time 0:02:09 Transcript My name is Kelvin Ng, I am an immigrant from Hong Kong which is a famous and well known city of China. When I was a kindergarten student I have been told I would immigrate to … As the time pass I soon turn in to the age of 10 and the time has come. I miss everything I had in Hong Kong, but I know life is like a …
  • Striving for a Dream by Yafet
    … Time 0:03:12 Transcript I never thought I would say “No” to come to Canada until the … delivers food to soldiers in the borders and we started our journey. When we got to the border we were picked up by smugglers who cramped us … Striving for a Dream by Yafet …
  • Xianqin Yang
    Difficulty of Being a TA Time 0:02:42 Transcript XY: Um. My school started in January the eighth I believe. Um, the study was okay because I think that we were only required to take, three to five courses, of the courses they were fine, not difficult, and the research I am always interested in …
  • De Francesco, Pompilio
    … My Story by Pompilio De Francesco I was born in a little town in Italy … I grew up in the forested mountain area and I scrambled to get a 5 year elementary education under Mussolini's dictatorial fascist regime. At the end of my last school year, Italy entered the Second World War with the rest of the nations. …
  • Empress of Britain - Peter Duschinsky
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 6:33 Transcript But we used to walk around the the, the hills of Salzburg. We used to watch the skiers, it was really great. And then uh, we got the okay to go to Canada, very rapidly, because, and I hadn’t mentioned this before, the third sister Boezsi …
  • Pino, Ilse Pleschberger Palisca
    … We had only one room to live in, in Villach Austria. Our two houses were destroyed by bombs and my husband was an Italian refugee from Communist Yugoslavia. We decided …
  • The tiny Lebanese village that changed the face of Halifax
    … Left: The mountain village of Diman and surrounding villages (photo courtesy of Jasmine Ghosn); right: The 161 unit Brenton Suites building, backgrounded by the 84 unit Trillium building, … itself. Perhaps even more surprising is how successful members of the community have been . Among them are business and community leaders, …
  • The tiny Lebanese village that changed the face of Halifax
    … Left: The mountain village of Diman and surrounding villages (photo courtesy of Jasmine Ghosn); right: The 161 unit Brenton Suites building, backgrounded by the 84 unit Trillium building, … itself. Perhaps even more surprising is how successful members of the community have been . Among them are business and community leaders, …
  • Vietnam War - Len Sirois
    … Life in the United States Time 0:02:22 Transcript I had just graduated from university—1965. … I wasn’t home two weeks. This would be in May because school used to end in the end of April there. I was home two weeks and I got a letter … used to somehow do you in too, because apparently a lot of guys would complain about back problems, you know, carrying your backpacks and all …
  • Gaetano Rossi
    … He was dressed in his best slacks and blazer with a crisp, white shirt and tie. In his … Rossi was arriving at Halifax's Pier 21. This time, however, he had come by car from Toronto not by boat from Naples. He was 68 not 18. He … things worked and where we should go. The date was July 28, 2001 and my uncle was in Halifax for the first time since he arrived at Pier 21 …