• New Year, Canadian Beer
    … a very excited Margot Tarajos. She asked if we would be open for her visit 363 days later. Margot was two and a half on New Year’s Eve in 1955 when her family arrived at Pier 21 and was ready to … wrote, “ We passed through Pier 21, Canada Immigration, according to my stamped documents, December 31, 1955. My mother says it was very …
  • Missing My Mother As I Make My Home in Canada by Amarjit
    … Time 0:03:04 Transcript My childhood was in Nairobi, Kenya where my first memories are of growing up with loving parents doting neighbors and children of my age. I lived in a flat with my parents and my brother. The big house … Missing My Mother As I Make My Home in Canada by Amarjit …
  • Korean Art in Canada-My Life, My Art by Young Ju
    … study fine art. At that time, the war in Korea made everyone poor, so my family said, why study art? There is no money. Still I knew it was … was very contemporary. We learned Korean and Western modern art. In my third year, my teacher Chang Woo Sung invited us to his Traditional Korean Art … Korean Art in Canada-My Life, My Art by Young Ju …
  • van Dongen
    … New Zealand, Australia, and Brazil. They ruled out Brazil where you couldn’t own land privately and New Zealand and Australia because … an apartment above a garage on that farm. In the mornings, they would hear the tractors starting below them and could smell the fumes. They … retirement. It even allowed them to return several times to visit the family in Holland who they had left behind so many years ago, …
  • The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada
    … Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by twelve-year-old Daniel Tighe and 1,489 others, two-thirds of them children . … Dublin and were boarded onto crowded ships bound for Quebec. The year was 1847. Famine , a sculpture by Rowan Gillespie located in … The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada …
  • The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada
    … Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by twelve-year-old Daniel Tighe and 1,489 others, two-thirds of them children . … Dublin and were boarded onto crowded ships bound for Quebec. The year was 1847. Famine , a sculpture by Rowan Gillespie located in … The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada …
  • Heterosexism in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1952-1978
    … the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, very advisedly: I am reminded that many of my friends would have experienced that term as abusive before it was … concerns turned up—such as if someone had collaborated with enemy forces in time of war—details would not be made available to … she’s a lesbian”…I said, “I’m hearing comments being made about me to my face and behind my back. You look at my evaluations about how I’m …
  • Al and Agnes Kolarik
    … Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia Ship Name: T.S.S. Nea Hellas Port of Entry: Pier 21, … away at the age of two in 1911 and his father Josef passed away in May, 1919 just prior to Alois’s birth. In 1939, at the age of 20, Alois … production was limited for use by the German army only. World War II was breaking out and Hitler’s primary ambition was the conquest of …
  • Home Children Canada • Les “Home Children” au Canada
    … Home Children Canada Les “Home Children” au Canada In honour of the 100,000 … de six à quatorze ans, orphelins ou non, qui ont été expédiés par bateau au Canada entre 1869 et 1948, pour la plupart à titre de … Home Children Canada • Les “Home Children” au Canada …
  • Jean Allison Bock
    … Diary Entries Friday, April 26 I left Sheffield at 9 am and was met in London by the Canadian Army and driven in a private car along with a girl named Beatrice to the …