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  • Immigration Act, 1976
    … impose a mandatory responsibility on the government to plan for the future of immigration. [1] In 1973, Minister of Manpower and Immigration Robert Andras commissioned a major review of existing immigration policy. Although … Canada. An Act Respecting Immigration to Canada, 1976. Ottawa: SC 25-26 Elizabeth II, Chapter 52 Valerie Knowles, Strangers at Our Gates: …
  • Ivy Edie Stevenson Williamson
    … My mother’s name was Ivy Edie Stevenson and she was born on January 26th, 1927 to Charles and Caroline Stevenson. She was 1 of 13 children …
  • Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946
    … In Canada’s first citizenship ceremony on 3 January 1947, 26 individuals were presented with certificates of Canadian … and Canadian Citizenship in History,” American Review of Canadian Studies 37, no. 4 (December 2007):444. ↩ Knowles, 65. ↩ Knowles, 66. ↩ …
  • Blank Page by Paulina
    … a place where to live or give you a job. My life in Chile was safe, comfortable. It was an academic life. I worked in a publishing house, … students. I loved writing, the importance of language and making complex ideas easy to understand. My family is very close. I have friends, they are …
  • Steven (Istvan) Erdos
    … where we were settled into a temporary housing development for the few days we had to spend there before embarking. The day finally arrived … to the authorities that if they wanted me out there, they had better come and CARRY ME OUT! I could not eat – only drink. Luckily on the … to Jewish passengers since it was PESACH (Passover). This was the only ‘food’ which I had till Halifax. The first time I stepped out of the …
  • My Heroes by Liliana
    … what was happening was very unclear, I was only 8. All I knew, I was coming to Canada and My father had told me he had a teddy Bear for me … was so cold, it was the month of December. At the beginning it was not easy, we were a family of 5 living in a bachelor apartment. With very … their friends, their everything. Because of their sacrifice, I got a future. A life with no worries. At my age now, having kids, and seeing …
  • Empress of Britain - Peter Duschinsky
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 6:33 Transcript But we used to walk around the … of the last that would get out of Hungary before the controls by the Communists were clamped down and they had managed to come to Canada. They, basically, they got the okay. That’s the only way …
  • Connie A.H. Uyterlinde
    … my family (parents and 2 older brothers) from the Netherlands to PEI, Canada in March of 1953. The decision to immigrate was made by my … while my brothers stayed with my father in separate quarters. The days spent in Halifax were with friends we had made on the boat. During … the Senator ordered for us. Well, you can imagine when the plates of food arrived and were put in front of us we had no idea what it was or …
  • David E. and Regina Hartman Family
    … am David & Regina Hartman's third daughter, and the first one born in Canada! Mom was 4 1/2 months pregnant with me, when they left … from that time, until 1910 when they converted to the Baptist faith. Catherine (who had come from Austria) had asked for professional people to help populate …
  • Canadian Macedonian Historical Society • КАНАДСКО МАКЕДОНСКО ИСТОРИСКО ДРУШТВО
    … МАКЕДОНСКО ИСТОРИСКО ДРУШТВО Honouring Canadian citizens of Macedonian descent who came from the Aegean, Pirin, Vardar and Mala Prespa regions … present. En honneur aux citoyens de descendance Macedonienne qui on fait du Canada leur foyer depuis la fin des annees 1800 jusqu'au present provenant des regions Egee, Pirin, Vardar et Mala Prespa en Macedoine. …

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