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  • Leaving Uganda: “My Whole Life in 1972” - Umeeda Switlo
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:12 Transcript Hi, my name is … Identity Card issued to Umeeda Switlo by the Republic of Uganda, 1972. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2017.139.1a-b] … Leaving Uganda: “My Whole Life in 1972” - Umeeda Switlo …
  • Back to the Land - Peter Seixas
    … a—there’s a thread of me that still sees this as a, as a believable response to the conditions that we face today. I mean, we saw the, … on the porch of a house in Powell River, British Columbia, 1970-1973. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [D12014.685.4] … Photograph of Peter Seixas splitting logs on the farming commune in Powell River, British Colombia, 1970-1973. Credit: Canadian …
  • Famèe Furlane Toronto
    … Famèe Furlane Toronto LIBARS DI SCUGNÎ LA In Honour of the Friulans who courageously left their beloved Friuli and who, with hard work … Famèe Furlane Toronto …
  • Anna Teresa Alessandroni
    … the Alessandroni Family had landed at Pier 21, Halifax. There they set foot to a new adventure, a new chapter of a family full of love, …
  • National Congress of Italian–Canadians
    … Congress of Italian–Canadians Congresso Nazionale degli Italo–Canadesi To honour and recognize all contributions made by Italian Canadians to their adopted land through their hard work, sacrifice and commitment. A riconoscenza …
  • Consulate General of Malta
    … many Maltese immigrants that disembarked at Pier 21, to start a new life and career in Canada. B’ġieh lil dawk l-immigrati Maltin kollha li nizlu fuq Pier 21, biex jibdew hajja u karriera godda fil-Kanada. …
  • Margie Gouleff Vassos
    … brought me to Union Station in Toronto where I was met by my uncle Louie who was my aunt's husband and my sister's adoptive family who I …
  • Chris and Roger Nash
    … because Cunard Lines staff was on strike. We were dropped off by Holland American in Halifax instead of going on to Montreal. I'll never forget that first view of Canada. Everything was so big - huge cars, wide streets, tall building. It was overwhelming and frightening seeing it and then no …
  • Canadian Macedonian Historical Society • КАНАДСКО МАКЕДОНСКО ИСТОРИСКО ДРУШТВО
    … of Macedonian descent who came from the Aegean, Pirin, Vardar and Mala Prespa regions of Macedonia and made Canada their home from the late 1800s to the present. En honneur aux citoyens de descendance Macedonienne qui on fait du Canada leur foyer depuis la fin des annees 1800 jusqu'au present provenant des regions Egee, …
  • Marta Palancz
    … leave. Before the Iron Curtain could fall upon what would thereafter become Eastern Europe, he dragged his wife and their three surviving … by good Samaritans who would leave them bread and other goods by sheer chance. For clothes, they would loot soldiers and other poor souls dead by the roadside. Antisemitism and suspicion were common …

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