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  • The Way of Tea in Whitehorse by Lillian
    … cultural practices. I enjoy being part of this group, but I struggle with understanding their conversations and I feel awkward about … my Dad was a Buddhist. Mum had a stroke in 2005, as a result of complications after some dental surgery. I kept thinking if only I had … not fluent in Japanese, I have absorbed some of the important cultural lessons of my parents. I am drawn to the tea ceremony because it’s my …
  • Kris Jensen
    … to Canada 1951: left Plymouth May 19, 1951, arrived at Pier 21 on May 26, on the S.S. Europe . By train to Vancouver, BC, was taken to … Started working June 3, 1951, and retired from the saw mill November 26, 1985. First two years pulling lumber on the big green chain, next … join them as inspector, still being at the same mill, worked the next 26 years as inspector. I married in 1961 and have four kids, two boys …
  • Marie Ori Burns
    … Harbor on January 17th, 1948, was the General Stuart Heintzelman. She was a merchant vessel. She sailed out of Bremerhaven, Germany, the … my mind off my misery was to ask for a job in the ship’s gallery, where I was granted a minor service- that of passing out trays to the … University, of Lenuoxville, Quebec, on the same day. I jokingly say that I am walking in my daughter’s footsteps; she also majored in …
  • The No. 2 Construction Battalion
    February 16 to May 1, 2017 A "Community Presents" exhibition. Credit: Courtesy of Esther Clark Wright Archives at Acadia University The No. 2 Construction Battalion is a temporary exhibit created by the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. This small exhibit commemorates the overseas departure of …
  • Canada and Germany: Partners from Immigration to Innovation
    … November 12, 2022 - January 22, 2023 Credit: Kitchener Public Library Canada and Germany: Partners from … Inuit of Labrador and the Germans. Nova Scotian content was added, reflecting, among other things, the important wave of German immigration …
  • Andrea Nicolosi
    … Andrea Nicolosi and Maria Soccorsa Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2013.1807.1a]. … 28, 1936 in Castellamare del Golfo (Trapani) Port of departure : PALERMO Ship : SATURNIA Port of arrival: HALIFAX Destination in Canada : …
  • Broken Promises
    … February 11, 2023 to April 23, 2023 Credit: Image provided courtesy of Nikkei National Museum & Cultural …
  • Weaving Cultural Identities
    … November 12, 2022 - January 22, 2023 Credit: Dawn Livera & Adrienne Neufeld (textile artists), Doaa Jamal …
  • The First Step is Always the Hardest by Kelvin
    … Canada after I finish grade 5, in that time I don’t have the basic knowledge of what really happen, it just feel like a very far away thing to me in that time. As the time pass I soon turn in to the age of 10 and the time has come. I miss everything I had in Hong Kong, but I know life is like a …