• A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … Rafael Alcolado performs at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge … world changed radically . As Fidel’s government veered towards communism, many professionals fled. Some estimate that 50% of Cuba’s … Salas in Santiago de Cuba. In 1966, aged 19, he played in a music competition in Havana. “I was lucky that there were 2 famous pianists …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … Rafael Alcolado performs at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge … world changed radically . As Fidel’s government veered towards communism, many professionals fled. Some estimate that 50% of Cuba’s … Salas in Santiago de Cuba. In 1966, aged 19, he played in a music competition in Havana. “I was lucky that there were 2 famous pianists …
  • Carmina, Paolo e Giuseppe Colicchio
    … life. I am happy to say that although my mother passed away, we are all alive and happy to be in this magnificent country. All of my siblings have retired and I am happy to report that I am …
  • Stewed Lenga Lenga
    … Lenga lenga is a leafy green and common vegetable grown in Central and Eastern Africa. It can be grown in a garden and incorporated … into stews or eaten as a side dish. This recipe comes from Imelde Nduwimana who came to Canada ten years ago from Burundi after …
  • Lucy Carmen Burrows
    … trip to Saskatoon where she was meeting with her husband and meeting all of his family. Lucy was very nervous about it all. The next fifty-eight years of Lucy's life were spent with Ed, …
  • Forbundet af Danske Foreninger i Canada • Federation of Danish Associations in Canada • Fédération des Associations Danoises au Canada
    … dreams, in this, our chosen land. And Canada opens her arms to us all, with her cities, forests and farms. All people together, working as one. Canadians—linking arms. Edith …
  • Santina Tersigni
    … Tersigni, both Italian. I have six brothers and sisters who have all immigrated to Canada from 1952 to 1960. We all immigrated to Canada and made a wonderful life in this beautiful …
  • Legacies 150
    … examining Canada’s immigration experiences will be featured, while all 13 will be accessible using onsite kiosks. The exhibit will be on display in the Mirella and Lino Saputo Hall from June 21 to September 14, 2017 and is included with Museum …
  • No Chop Suey in China - and other food stories
    … Season 4 of our podcast Countless Journeys is all about food and the people who make it. Ann Hui tells her story in … of Ann Hui. It was only when she visited Chinese restaurants in small towns that Ann Hui discovered dishes like chop suey, or moo goo gai pan, or sweet and sour chicken balls. Hui had grown up eating “authentic” Chinese food in Vancouver’s …
  • No Chop Suey in China - and other food stories
    … Season 4 of our podcast Countless Journeys is all about food and the people who make it. Ann Hui tells her story in … of Ann Hui. It was only when she visited Chinese restaurants in small towns that Ann Hui discovered dishes like chop suey, or moo goo gai pan, or sweet and sour chicken balls. Hui had grown up eating “authentic” Chinese food in Vancouver’s …