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June 8 to November 18, 2012 Are you a part of a cultural landscape? The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 invited visitors to find out by exploring the temporary exhibition Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes . Visitors discovered the ways groups and individuals maintain and …
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… March 9 to November 15, 2019 What is family, anyway? Can you pick your family or is it determined by biology? Is …
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Engage your audience in immigration history and create conversation by featuring an exhibition from our expert curatorial team in your space. What’s available eat make share: a taste of immigration A History Exposed: The Enslavement of Black People in Canada Refuge Canada Tent Refuge Canada Fully …
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Our parents heard about Canada taking in immigrants through the North American Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society and were assisted by them. …
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Our family left Rotterdam aboard the S.S. Waterman on April 15, 1952. I was eight years old and the only thing I recall about the trip was being so seasick, I never left the room. Needless to say my mother and father must have had their hands full with eight children and my mother expecting the …
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… sold all their possessions and left the Ukraine with their three sons to start a new life in Canada. What a courageous family! They boarded … Halifax on June 4, 1928. From there, they made their way as a family to Rama, Saskatchewan to start their new life. With the money they had, they were able to buy …
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… known as Jan Willem. I vividly recall boarding the S.S. Waterman. I can still see my mother standing between many people as I was thinking … of not knowing if we were doing the right thing in immigrating to Canada. My husband was a blacksmith by trade and had been working in … generation. Would this lost future opportunity to Jan Willem be significant? These things go through your mind at the time. On March 10,1954, …
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… where she would marry our father Alceo D’Angelo. Our father had come to Canada previously in 1955. Travelling with my mother were two … Pico. Her friends were bound for British Columbia where they were to be married as well. The three young ladies sailed from Genoa on the …
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… were nurtured. Between the formation of a family, three maternity leaves and helping my husband in his growth as a mechanical engineer, I … humanities at Laurentian University, and my husband quit his job in a company in order to start his own business. Then our life as immigrants …
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… In 1953, when you came to Canada, you had to have the following: 1. - Passport 2. - German I.D. … we had to our name, but was also the amount allowed for us to bring to Canada. We boarded the ship named Arosa Kulm, on February 17th, 1953. … and dreams, I was blindfolded and placed in front of a very big map of Canada. I pointed to Woodstock, Ontario. I, and six others, headed to …