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… of Service, qui accueillirent les immigrants dès leur débarquement ici au Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1928-1971 …
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… and live in luxury in America. I pictured myself living in a pretty house with lots of flowers and lilac trees which I got from a popular … younger brother Egidio (Ed) and I were seasick, we spent most of the days in bed. As a result, to this day I refuse to ever go on a cruise. …
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… had endured enough. He had heard about the promise of free land in Canada. His pioneering spirit stirred within him, yearning for a free … and Victor, 3, were amongst the second group of Ukrainian settlers to come to Canada. The first had arrived in 1891. On June 6, 1930, the … there in silence looking out across the land that was theirs. No one else was in sight, only swamp, rock, and spruce and poplar trees. We …
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… 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 …
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… to develop his play Long-Distance-Short (working title). On March 26, 2025 a local audience was treated to a participatory …
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… camp, because Piobolu was burned. I remember the day I found out I was coming to Canada. I didn’t know what to think. My dad thought coming to Canada would be a better life for our family because we were … us off. After a long trip we finally got to Canada. When we got to Welcome House we were all so tired and had a lot to go through. I couldn’t …
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… the people coming to Canada to start a new life. Setting The Table: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities → Long Journeys: The First …
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… to take our family with them – again, in exchange for my grandmother’s food preparation. The family included my grandmother, grandfather, my … front though Europe, while ducking bombs and bullets. They foraged for food and my grandmother continued to feed the engineers and our family … Hollywood actor, John Hodiak (addressed to: John Hodiak, Hollywood U.S.A.) – enlisting his help to help find our relative. Amazingly, Mr. …
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… the refugee camp in Benin, I registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. In the camp, we were living in abject poverty. … that would anger Nigeria. So it took ten years for me to be able to come over to Canada from that camp. I arrived in St. John’s in 2008. …
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… on April 21, 1957, with the SS Ryndam, HAL. During the trip we had one day, rough stormy weather in the North Atlantic and the dining room did … the train made numerous stops and had long waits in nowhere. Every chance we had when the train stopped at a station, my travel … companions, Walter and Edith Loff (lost track of them) picked up food for the long trip. Walter had lived in Canada for one year and had …