• Annual Public Meeting 2020
    … everyone. The video that you have just watched illustrates the countless journeys that immigrants made and continue to make to come to Canada. It may have reminded you of your own family’s story. On … last year, while over 489,000 unique visitors spent time on our website learning about our programs, stories and collections. I am also …
  • Pain of Hunger by Sudarson
    … country. I don’t remember living there, but I remember the day we left; when I was crying with hunger. My parents are carrying nothing. … NEPAL I got chance to study in refugee camp. When I reached to grade seven and eight they taught me about the history of Bhutan. We … me still. The Government of Bhutan and Nepal did meeting for 15 times to solve the problems of refugee but they are not successes. One …
  • James and Janet Paton
    … My husband Cpl. James Reid Paton arrived two days ahead of me on the Ile de France, a troop ship. I sailed from Liverpool. The day after I got … James and Janet Paton …
  • First Taste of White Bread
    … That evening, my Dad had bought some "Canadian sliced white bread", which was … and we arrived in Orillia on April 1, 1953 on a lovely sunny day. Orillia has been home for the past 60 years. I married my … and we had three beautiful children starting in 1959. Canada is my home, my life. I am so happy that my father chose Canada as our home... …
  • Private Wilfred Howard Wilson
    … remember too much about the War at all. It was fast and furious for me. I joined up, in five months I was in England and I was there for … the vehicles that broke down on schemes and so on." "I was hurt on the D+12 going overseas and spent six months in hospital. When I got out I wasn't allowed to go back overseas. It was my knees that were hurt and I was sent to a convalescent unit and there …
  • Staff Sgt Catherine K. Drinkwater
    … I left Canada as Staff Sergeant, and two and a half years later came back to Pier 21 as a Private. Quite a slacker, you'd think! So, … jeeps (one of which I drove up and then down the steps at the Old City Hall in Toronto during a Victory Loan gathering of thousands of … I became a motor mechanic; I took a course, and got 10 cents a day more! I used to give driving lessons to kids coming into Ordnance, …
  • Clarecia Christie
    … Dealing with Winter Time 0:01:43 Transcript But for me the winter was, … myself. Because all I saw was just my eyes. And I was saying, People must be wondering what’s wrong with that girl. And then I wasn’t … she earned a master’s degree in international business management. While working on her master’s degree, Clarecia moved to Barbados to intern …
  • There's more to this book than recipes
    … Rebecca Teitelbaum's recipe book contains 110 pages of recipes collected in a concentration camp. (Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre … the recipes featured on the eat make share page of the Museum's website . A reproduction of the recipe book, showing Rebecca's Orange Cake … what eat make share has to offer. The exhibition closes January 18, 2026.   …
  • There's more to this book than recipes
    … Rebecca Teitelbaum's recipe book contains 110 pages of recipes collected in a concentration camp. (Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre … the recipes featured on the eat make share page of the Museum's website . A reproduction of the recipe book, showing Rebecca's Orange Cake … what eat make share has to offer. The exhibition closes January 18, 2026.   …
  • Sarah Theresa Roberts
    … arrival of their first daughter, Moira Audrey Mackay, who was born on D-Day in London. Sarah always spoke of walking to the hospital carrying her suitcase as the bombers flew overhead. In May of 1946, Sarah, along with her first born, entered the sea for the … baby Moira fell out of her bunk to the floor with a thump & didn’t miss a wink of sleep. Sarah & Moira eventually settled in Dalhousie …