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… At the end of WWII, my father, Alberto, was released from a POW camp in North Africa and … March 1981 when he retired as a labour foreman. It took my father one year to earn enough money to pay for my mother and I to travel from …
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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 years in the U.S. Army during World War Two … Family Reaction to Leaving - Bruce Bolin …
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… Time 0:03:59 Transcript I was born in Trinidad my mother died in childbirth and I was … Vernie came to Trinidad and took myself and my sister back to St Vincent & the Grenadines. Growing up on a coconut plantation on St Vincent … and we moved to Sault Ste Marie in 2002. Moving from Toronto, my immigration file was transferred to the Soo office and that was a big …
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… In Their Own Words The immigration experience is marked by firsts. The … personal immigration experiences. Click below to watch videos and hear newcomers with diverse backgrounds share their immigration experiences, in their own words. ( May contain mature content ) Aamir Mirza Anthony (Tony) Athanas …
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… Families Before 1956 My dad spoke very little of his family. Few facts are known to me, he lived in a village in Hungary close to the Romanian border, his … up that dream. When he was 27 years old, married and had a baby girl (me), he borrowed money from his mother and set off to Canada. His …
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… Time 0:02:16 Transcript Ever since I came to Canada I’ve always really admired the beauty of buildings, and I’ve always had a strong aspiration to become some sort of designer. I remember being at the top of the twin towers when I was little. I felt the weirdest sensation in my legs. They were … Crash Test Dummy by Arthur …
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… John River (known in Wolastoqiyik as Wolastoq ) and the area later encompassing Saint John ( Menahkwesk ). In 1604, a French expedition … River, only had about 140 inhabitants. In the 1780s, some 15,000 Loyalists from the United States were offered land and chose to resettle … Canada. Dept. of Interior / Library and Archives Canada / PA-047926 Beginning in the latter-half of the nineteenth century, Saint John …
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… is part of what defines us as a country. The Museum would like to hear from anyone with a story related to Canadian immigration. Personal … of immigration are an important part of everything we do, and you can help the Story Collection grow by sharing yours. Criteria for Written Stories The Museum may collect stories that meet the following criteria: The story meets …
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… our lives together. The food was good on the ship, what I mostly remember are the fresh fruits that where for dessert and there was lots of it. There where very big rooms with lots of bunk beds for sleeping, woman and children in one room and the man in a other, not very … or we had to pay for it. We had french fries and for the first time in my life saw and tasted ketchup, did not like, but like it now. Then we …
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… On July 16, 1952 my family left Rotterdam Netherlands on the ship "Grote Beer" to a new … of a surprise to all. My father had an accident at work and lost an eye around the time that we were building our own home. In 1957 I … Marinus Enders …