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… So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … I’ll see papà again … and I feel a little bit happy. The horn blasts from the ship. Everything is shaking. … Halifax, and the ship finally stops rolling back and forth. Now I understand why Cristoforo Colombo kissed the ground when he got off the …
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… February 16 to May 1, 2017 A "Community Presents" exhibition. Credit: Courtesy of … 600 men sailed from Halifax Harbour and arrived in France in May. The unit was an achievement for the African-Canadian community …
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… of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: October 21, 1951 Age on Arrival: 23 The Immigration Story of Mario Chiarvesio (Italian Immigrant) Mario Chiarvesio was born on April 3rd, 1928, the last of three children of Bonaventura Chiarvesio and Giulia Lizzi in the town of Fagagna in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of northeast …
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… Andrea Nicolosi and Maria Soccorsa Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2013.1807.1a]. … : NICOLOSI, ANDREA Born on February 28, 1936 in Castellamare del Golfo (Trapani) Port of departure : PALERMO Ship : SATURNIA Port of arrival: HALIFAX Destination in Canada : …
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… Barbieri had five young girls aged 17 months – 11 years old when they disembarked at Pier 21 Halifax in July of 1965. A sixth child and … Both still in their late twenties, adventurous and with youth on their side, they applied for immigration to both countries. Giuseppe and … understood the meaning of not having a father present and he did not want this for his children. Giuseppe was able to successfully find work …
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… November 12, 2022 - January 22, 2023 Credit: Dawn Livera & Adrienne Neufeld (textile artists), Doaa Jamal …
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… February 11, 2023 to April 23, 2023 Credit: Image provided courtesy of Nikkei National Museum & Cultural … and after war ends, and how legacies of dispossession continue to this day. Broken Promises is curated by the Nikkei National Museum and the …
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… Life in Uganda - A Multifaceted Community Time 0:01:10 Transcript I speak English, Gujarati, Gujarati’s … My mother is born in India and she came to Uganda when she was eleven… We were Ugandan. We were all born there so we were all Ugandan … to live here, and we’re not going to go back—if we go visit, fine. I visited once, but at that time the new government came they were giving …
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… I was born in a small city of Sora (Province) Frosinone, Italy in 1940. I have one brother and two sisters. My parents were the most honest, lovable and hardworking people ever. …
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… The S.S. Marine Perch left Malta with 121 other Maltese immigrants bound for the shores of Canada on May 8 1948. Alfred (Fred) Micallef was 18 years old, could hardly speak … of those year ago, traveling to unknown parts, with no idea of what lay ahead, persevering through the years, giving to his children one of …