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… January 6, 1954, my husband Franco and I left our home in San Lorenzo de Arzene with our two little girls during a terrible snowstorm. Fulvia … connections were frozen because of the cold. However, the Vulcania was detained at Genoa because so many other passengers from various parts … able to join my husband in the dining room. On January 20th we landed in Halifax and went through Immigration. Our final destination was …
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General Stories Monica Forberger Stephen Csibor Family Stories Before 1956 Andy Alfoldy Anna Spaunberg Irene Gadja Kucha Family Tajti Family Family Stories 1956 Elizabet Fajta Erzsebet Guti Eva Kende nee Varadi Janos Maté Lazslo Galambos S.I. Sipkoi De Kellermann Yolan Bencsik Single Men and Women …
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… an evening when we had a dance which was quite exceptional because due to the rough seas you didn't have to do too much fancy footwork but merely slid from side to side as the boat lurched on its way! We spent a day or two in Newfoundland while the freight was unloaded and I recall …
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… a lot because the yield was not good for making a lot of money. One day, I went on a land visit with my father on his bicycle. That time my father told me that you become a researcher, not like me. After that I participate a lot in the … my exams, I came back to my home, and my aunt was in the hospital. She died within a month. She got breast cancer This motivated me to do my …
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… Giovanni Maieron shares with us his story of how he came to live in Canada. He relates his tale with pride and an unexpected softness from … and his cousin, Mario, ventured off to the land of opportunity - Canada. He purchased a third class ticket for which he paid 110,000 … roads in the middle of the forest, bringing down trees, rocks and building tunnels and bridges. Subsequently another team would lay down the …
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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:12 Transcript Hi, my name is Umeeda Switlo. When I left Uganda my name was Umeeda Umedaly. I brought … Leaving Uganda: “My Whole Life in 1972” - Umeeda Switlo …
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… Time 0:03:29 Transcript I grew up in a small island in India called Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Our family had four girls, and we were always discouraged by close relatives and the community for only having girl children. My aunts would say, why does … when I graduated. Always I wanted to be the top in the field I studied, and I knew I could achieve more. This was not my limit. And yet, …
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… Leaving the United States Time 0:01:30 Transcript And I had come from a family where my father had been drafted and served five … coming time for me to let them know that I was planning to go to Canada to avoid being drafted turned out my father who’s an attorney he … nearby, the grandparents I knew the best. By then my grandfather had died, but my grandmother, she was under the attitude that the president …
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… they would be killed. Just before my parents crossed the border, my dad was shot in his leg. An organization helped them to cross the … Palestine. Thousands in the camp went back to Iraq. They preferred to die in Iraq than to die in the desert waiting to be a refugee. There are only 150 of us …
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… Time 0:03:37 Transcript One day, my daughter came home and asked me the question, dad, why do some … I was born and brought up in Uganda. Immediately the question was “how come you are not black?” My answer was just like in Canada, Africa has … helped my daughter gain tremendous self-confidence as students stopped calling names or bullying her or other students from visible …