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… as a Dutch Marine. Most of his time in the Marines was served in Indonesia (Former Dutch East Indies). Having been in Indonesia, he wanted … The voyage on board the Waterman from Rotterdam to Halifax took 7 days. On the first day of their journey they found 5 more single young men on board and …
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… a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be … Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.” …
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… The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada Comité Canadian du Centenaire du … grâce aux efforts de l'Armenian Relief Association et de l'Église Unie du Canada. Pour beaucoup d'entr eux, Halifax fut le port d'entrée … The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada • Comité Canadian du Centenaire du …
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… 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 … Poland, and while Czeslaw was still a teenager, he was arrested with one of his brothers and they were interrogated and physically abused. …
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… the quality of caring about the collective welfare, a person who is community-minded. The choice of this expression as a project name is a … of Tibetans, founding members of today’s community in Canada, who embodied that spirit and shared it with their children. The Chyssem … sometimes when it's raining, tents are not waterproof. So many people died there too, yeah." Screen text The UNHCR assisted the Indian …
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Time 0:03:34 Transcript I was born in Somalia in 1981. By 1991 Somalia had a civil war. We ran to the nearest peaceful country which was Kenya. My parents brought us to a refugee camp in the north east province of Kenya. Our hopes in that camp were to be resettled to developed countries or for our …
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… hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to travel to Canada on the Vulcania on April 1, 1955 departing from the Port of … M/n Saturnia. I guess I must have gotten better as we boarded the next day to a journey which would take us 12 days to arrive in Halifax. The … New York. The stops in each of the cities were short in duration; the one stop where we stayed a longer period of time was Barcelona and …
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… They had 4 children within 5 years. It was a struggle to earn enough money to feed their big family, so my dad was encouraged to immigrate … find a job then they would send him back to Italy and not sponsor him any longer. The next day he went searching for a job on foot as he did not have enough money …
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… Second, public health interests often overwhelmed - and sometimes completely displaced - the implementation of civil immigration policy. … Permanent Immigration Building The doctor/agents Milne and McAlpin embodied the strong interweaving of civil and medical authorities around … late 1960s, when an integrated approach to screening processes called Primary Inspection Line (PIL) examination was launched. This was done …
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Time 0:04:18 Transcript Perhaps growing up in a military lifestyle gave me the courage to face new environments and an adventurous spirit to explore the world. And yet, never in my wildest dreams had I imagined that one day I would be travelling halfway across the world all on my own. But as …