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… – November 2022 Colchester Museum Truro, NS July – September 2022 Yarmouth County Museum Yarmouth, NS April – June 2022 Glace Bay Library Glace Bay, NS March – … Library Halifax, NS October – November 2021 Harbourfront Museum Yarmouth, NS June – October 2021 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Halifax, …
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… of pursing a better life for themselves and their children. They had become aware of the opening of immigration to Canada, and although other … an "endentured worker", having the prerequisite "hardened hands". On Good Friday, April 8, 1955, António boarded the ship Saturnia in the …
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… ships as a signalman and communicator. Semaphore, signal flags, morse code and radio predated high tech and the internet and those …
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… hometown is a little town which is in Guangdong province, which is in southern part of China, where there is lots of people immigrated to … the things look like going on a right path. Despite everything looks good on the surface, there are always some problems underneath. While … you are part of this society, and you also can make this country become better. Return to Charlottetown …
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… Ideal For: Ages 10 - 15 Maximum number of participants: 30 How do we learn about the past? How do historians unravel history? In this workshop students will take on the role of history detectives, using artefacts and … hone their investigative skills as they look for evidence and clues. Sources will be evaluated; motives, biases, and stereotypes will be …
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Joyce, young woman …
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… Piccolo. It amazes our family to this date, the courage this man had to set out to a strange unknown country to make a better life for his family. We understand that he attempted to come to Canada many times but failed without the proper documents. … Nicodemo Vincenzo Nick Joe Piccolo …
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… told me that there was alot of women on board and a few children; she had my oldest brother Gordie (2yrs at the time) with her and she was … it took 7 days. She had never been away from home and did not realize how far Canada was; she arrived in Pier 21 Halifax NS and recalls being the first one off the ship with a Red Cross nurse at her side happy to be on land. A …
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… daughter in the Phillipines. I was going abroad to give my daughter a good education. Every month, I sent my sister ten thousand pesos to look after my daughter. In 1986 I got my papers. I sponsored my daughter to come to Canada. But my sister didn’t want to give her to me. …