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  • Datta and Pat Saungikar
    … arrived in India to face discharge. Patricia Marian Saungikar nee Evans Joined W.R.N.S. as Aircraft Mechanic in February 1957 after … after 5 years at her own request due to marriage and emigrating to Canada. Due to the restrictions in the Indian Navy about marrying … the train with a change in Montreal; they arrived in Toronto, Sunday evening. On a very cold February day they made their way to …
  • Saputo Family commemorates arrival in Canada with $1M donation to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
    … August 22, 2018 Halifax, NS   Saputo Family commemorates arrival in Canada with $1M donation to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier … to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. The gift is a way to acknowledge where the Saputo family’s Canadian journey began. … said Lino Saputo during the announcement event at the Museum. “We are proud to support the Museum, and play a part in sharing the …
  • A Quarantine Label on the Door Doesn’t Make the Best First Impression
    … after they settled in Canada in June of 1950. “Soon after Labour Day, school started for John and Roger,” Jennifer wrote. “It was very … and friendliness of teachers and children helped a lot. “Alas, however, they didn’t go for more than a week before Martin & John developed unusual coughs which we realized …
  • It's a Small World by Carmela
    … new baby, but my troubles were definitely not over. My inability to communicate made it all so difficult, and I was feeling lonely even … roots. My painful beginning became the inspiration for my lifelong commitment to language education, which I have been promoting for more …
  • Journey for Social Recognition by Sangeetha
    … four girls, and we were always discouraged by close relatives and the community for only having girl children. My aunts would say, why does … when I graduated. Always I wanted to be the top in the field I studied, and I knew I could achieve more. This was not my limit. And yet, … it change my father’s mind? But he said to her, I don’t want her to come back one day and say, you didn’t let me study further. After my …
  • Search for Research by TD
    … with my father on his bicycle. That time my father told me that you become a researcher, not like me. After that I participate a lot in the … my exams, I came back to my home, and my aunt was in the hospital. She died within a month. She got breast cancer This motivated me to do my … suspect malaria. I travelled 8 hours to visit him. During surgery, he died. Because of the type of malaria he had, they couldn’t identify it …
  • Behind the Story by Kathy
    Time 0:03:34 Transcript Growing up, my parents would always bring me along to the restaurant. I remember sitting at the back table and drawing pictures or peeling carrots in my own little world. I would always go there after school where I ate and did my homework. It was a lot of fun. The employees …
  • Quotes
    … Arrival in Canada “We were terrified of the cold land and the large amount of snow, where people were different and spoke a foreign language.” (Anonietta Lanni nee Venditti) Deciding to Leave ”I know that my father loved his …
  • Flying with Passion by Gabriella
    … growth as a mechanical engineer, I was able to finish my fine arts studies and my teacher training, as well as having extensive experience in … humanities at Laurentian University, and my husband quit his job in a company in order to start his own business. Then our life as immigrants …
  • Bargenda Family
    … - as a POW in Scotland. He returned to Berlin in November 1947 and we met and got married in 1949. We lived with my mother in a 2 … fortunate to find a job which meant that he would leave Berlin on Monday, return on Friday, repair the truck on Saturday, have a day off on …

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