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  • What Your Donation Makes Possible
    … gateways to understanding. People from around the world continue to come to Canada, each with an individual journey worth sharing. All continue to … of what it means to be Canadian.  You can help provide newcomers with stepping stones  Donations also go to support the Welcome …
  • 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 …
  • Stories - Netherlands
    … Dad's Story Dad's Story (English) Children's Stories AE Didi Murphy Willem Kreeft Josephine Keyzer Sietske Flietstra Bellsmith Lina Douwasma … Douma Arie and Tiny Bor Abe Baanstra Eric Wicherts Nederlof van Tiggelen William and Christine Stoffer Johanna Schel Anton and Paula Rouss …
  • Quotes - Life in Canada
    … hired with my sister in the Tobacco factory. And the money was good.” (Lea van Muren, 1952) “As might be expected, the transition to a new … be of little help. Within the first couple of months of our arrival in Canada, mom and dad seriously considered taking our family back to the … promising news from the International Nickel Company. We both had to come in for a medical examination. We passed and were given …
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    … at Pier 21. For event information, sponsorships or ticket sales, contact: Ellen Sikorski or visit our Canadahelps event page . The …
  • Antonio Fernandes Moreira
    … of pursing a better life for themselves and their children. They had become aware of the opening of immigration to Canada, and although other … friends immigrated to Brazil and Angola, they had decided their future lay in Canada. António Moreira of Vale Da Carreira married Maria Da … after a sixteen-hour flight. The family's reunion in Toronto was delayed by one day due to a snow storm in Montreal. The reunion was …
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  • Armando e Giuseppe Cocchio
    … Born: Oct 18, 1908 Died: May 6, 1992 in Port Credit, ON Married: Addina Noro 1943 Daughter: Lorrane Cocchio Capel; …
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