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… in Canada. These brave hearts are the pioneers of the roots where I come from and to whom I feel thankful for. With my respect and … for a new home. Great rewards favor the brave. New land! Old dreams come to be. Anticipating a better tomorrow. Perhaps someday, one of our … far from home to start a new and hopefully better life. There are 3 more family commemorative plaques also located on the Sobey Wall of …
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… 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 …
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… country to another, from one country to another, you are expecting challenges. You expected the worse and I was prepared for that. But the … I was prepared that thing will be difficult for me if I in the competition with a Canadian born in a job he may get it first before I … fact Brooks become like- Alabama of 1960s United States. People were telling us to go back home where we come from. People were calling us …
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… with a foreign language that I didn’t understand. With time, I put all my effort into learning English. I learned to manage myself and got … in this country, was nothing I could ever imagine. I am proud to call myself a Canadian. I have a beautiful family, blessed with three children and seven grandchildren. So, you know now, why I call it my lucky day. Thank you, Canada. This is my family in Italy. My …
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… to get, that was provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada—all financial help for food, for apartment rent, for buying new clothes … days, we simply, I still remember, for eighteen days we didn’t get a chance to cook our Nepalese food. That was the terrible part. That was … We couldn’t cook our food. So, we simply depend upon the bread and the jam for eighteen days. So as soon as we shifted to our apartment, we …
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… 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 … make us feel better, which was easier said than done because we were all very sea sick. As we got longer into the journey, we were starting … that time my eldest brother, Adrian, felt so embarrassed that he ate all of our meals. After that we drove to the farm, unfortunately due to …
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… By recording peoples’ immigration stories through oral history interviews, the Museum contributes important documentation … us insights and anecdotes and stories that simply don’t exist anywhere else in the historical record. Very, very scared. It’s my first time to go out of my country. And no relatives here, no one whatsoever. I don’t even know the face of the …
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… and I was to report to a hostel in London, England. We were not allowed to communicate with anyone. Sailing orders came and we were … started to inch out of the dock, the band began to play "Will Ye No Come Back Again." The streamers began to snap. I wondered if I had done …
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… There's more to this book than recipes …
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… re-opened its doors on July 1, 1999. July 1 of this year marked a special anniversary : 25 years since our building first re-opened its doors … volunteers, including founder JP LeBlanc and later Ruth Goldbloom OC, believed that Pier 21, one of Canada’s last standing immigration sheds, … groups who once passed through Pier 21; an immigrant, a refugee (more commonly referred to as a Displaced Person at the time), a Veteran, a …