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  • Private Arthur Fisher
    … well-respected blacksmith. My father enlisted in the army on November 26, 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta. Pte. Fisher underwent basic training in …
  • Vittorio and Antonia Ciampini
    … father Vittorio Ciampini (28 years old), my mother Antonia D'Alesio (26 years old), my sister Domenica (6 years old) and my brother … herder without a trade and without much schooling so he decided to come to Canada in search of a better life for his family. He had … still smiling and sharing tears of joy for all the privileges we have come to know in this peace loving country we call Canada. We, the …
  • Artist-in-Residence Winter 2024 – Santiago Guzmán
    … to develop his play Long-Distance-Short (working title). On March 26, 2025 a local audience was treated to a participatory …
  • Walter Martin Kleinwort
    … the latter half of March. However, much to his family's surprise, a day after their departure Father unexpectedly appeared back at his … speaking skills presented challenges when it came to purchasing food. For the first time in their lives, they saw and ate bananas. … taken during this period indicated that they lived in a rundown frame house located on the farm property. It was during his Clarkson farming …
  • Bert, Johanna Kruithof and Children
    … My mother, brothers and I immigrated to Canada in 1955, nine months after my father did. We traveled on the … the Dutch money she had was not legal in Canada and spent it on ice cream for us and our friends or she would buy drinks for other … We boarded the train and traveled to Toronto where our father had a house waiting for us. Our family has lived int Toronto and the …
  • Elio D'Alessio
    … Italy and finally Canada. My father Elio was born on November 26th 1926 in Chieti Scalo in the region of Abruzzo which is in central Italy …
  • Morris Josef Haugg
    … parts of Canada. My story is a little different. Not only did I come a different way, (by train) and from a different direction (from … Montreal so I went back onto the ship and arrived at Montreal the next day. My ultimate destination was Eastern Canada and therefore I already … of this big city, the first major North American city that I had a chance to visit. I stared with awe at the huge buildings, particularly …
  • Immigrant vs Belonging - Tom Corcoran
    … an immigrant. EB: Now why do you think that is? TC: Because it was so comfortable to be here, so easy to be here, I don’t know. I certainly don’t have to, you know—I … the college here now, and I watch the college try to help immigrants become part of this society and it’s a real chore: language barriers and …
  • Would You Pass The Test?
    … are precious in museums. It is in this moment that they realise that becoming a citizen is not easy. That would-be-citizens are expected to know more about Canada …
  • Signs of Agency in Refugee Narratives
    … people who experience war, violence or trauma – are also agents who can exert control in situations defined mostly by control being taken … about Czeslaw Tomaszewski’s wartime experiences and his decision to come to Canada; the courage of Lynda Dyck, also during the Second World … in a Displaced Person’s (DP) camp in Bavaria. There was barely any food to eat, but cigarettes, sent by the Polish government in London, …

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