• Bruce Eldon Myron Evans Ray
    … After a terrible storm that followed us for the whole crossing, we finally made port. This crossing was filled with sickness and fear, but … filth and dirt came smells of coffee. The local people were doing all they could to accommodate everyone. They had trays of egg and …
  • Customs and Traditions: Holiday Edition!
    … In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we … this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them …
  • Xianqin Yang
    … 0:02:42 Transcript XY: Um. My school started in January the eighth I believe. Um, the study was okay because I think that we were only … of the courses they were fine, not difficult, and the research I am always interested in research, that wasn’t hard. The hard part was … Xianqin Yang was born and raised in Shandong Province, China. After completing an undergraduate degree and master’s degree in microbiology, …
  • Open the Land by Margaret
    … Time 0:03:56 Transcript My maternal grandfather, Charles Midgley was born in York, England in 1882. By age 20 he had become the head gardener for a big estate. At the same time his desire … note of advertisements for purchasing large sections of totally undeveloped land in Canada. Grandpa plucked up courage and made all the …
  • Crossing the Big Pond by Monika
    … Muller, two doting parents. Everything was on fire, chaos everywhere. Although I was born in St. Joseph Catholic Hospital, I was baptised Lutheran immediately. Since Bremerhaven was bombed continuously and our survival was … in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 …
  • Gerald, Irene and Doreen
    … She did not get on. I stood hanging out of the door yelling for her to come on till the bus reached the top of the street. I was furious with … Union Terrace Gardens these two Canadian soldiers spotted us and said "come on down". There was a steep bank so we said, 'No you come on up". …
  • The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada
    … 32 pairs of children’s shoes, cast in bronze, dot a 165 km trail in Ireland known as the National Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by … with their English landlord, they had been evicted from their homes. Accompanied by a bailiff, they marched towards Dublin and were boarded …
  • “This Is An Emotional Place” - The Notes They Left Behind
    … DI2013.848.2.   Hundreds of old-fashioned luggage tags adorn two walls in the Museum. They are left by visitors and covered with drawings … Jan Raska, a historian at the Museum explains, “The tags were used to help identify Displaced Persons and political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags …
  • Reborn by Sergio
    … Time 0:04:19 Transcript January 10th, 2010, almost midnight, a family of 5 people arriving to Moncton, New … … a dark and windy day, and maybe because of the stress of the trip I felt that night was the coldest night in my whole life… my first thought … in Bolivia. It is a developing country with many challenges to overcome. Often people did not agree with the decisions of the government …
  • “This Is An Emotional Place” - The Notes They Left Behind
    … DI2013.848.2.   Hundreds of old-fashioned luggage tags adorn two walls in the Museum. They are left by visitors and covered with drawings … Jan Raska, a historian at the Museum explains, “The tags were used to help identify Displaced Persons and political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags …