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… 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 …
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… Time 0:02:50 Transcript One afternoon, heading for a track and field practise, I did … side of the street. A taxi cab came around the corner and hit me when I was walking across. I suffered some serious internal damage and a … I could do more. In the spring of 1976, I qualified for the upcoming para Olympics. Like a typical 20 year old with a lot more …
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… 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 …
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… 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. …
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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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… and Rita and our families have been to have created so many joyful memories and experiences with Dad. Memories that we hope will be passed … and Future Great-Grandchildren of Michele Nicola Carbone: Your Bisnonno was born on Feb 2, 1931 in Modugno, Italy where he spent … your Bisnonno features his signature signoff - “A te un ricordo, e a me, la felecita di essera ricordato.” For you a memory, for me the …
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… 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 …
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… things. But I never felt out-casted. Biography: Louanne Mae Aspillaga was born in Manila, Philippines in 1981. When Louanne was …