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  • Scotiabank Family History Centre
    … for someone arriving in Canada before 1865 are low, as there are no comprehensive lists. 1865 - 1935: Canada started keeping immigration … 1935) for all ports of entry. These do not include passenger lists. Commemorative Ship Photos: Available for purchase in person on the day …
  • Elvira Romanello
    … Luigia Beninatto. Both were born in and lived in the village of Breda di Piave in the province of Treviso, Italy. It is also an account of … who supplied the factory, and then endless hours throughout the day and evening to supervise the stages in the cheesemaking process. … an interest in coming to Port Arthur, Virginio encouraged him to come and helped to arrange a sponsor (someone who would employ Dad for …
  • Antonio Romanello
    … Luigia Beninatto. Both were born in and lived in the village of Breda di Piave in the province of Treviso, Italy. It is also an account of … who supplied the factory, and then endless hours throughout the day and evening to supervise the stages in the cheesemaking process. … an interest in coming to Port Arthur, Virginio encouraged him to come and helped to arrange a sponsor (someone who would employ Dad for …
  • Ferrara Family
    … I spent an interesting morning touring and researching my arrival to Canada on the ship - Vulcania. We docked in Halifax on an overcast day on December 29, 1952. This account is the story of Peppino, a … and his eleven year old sister Filomena. The voyage began on a snowy day in December with the cancellation of a bus trip. In its place a …
  • John and Kirsten Karding
    … in Central, and Kirsten in the northwest Jutland peninsula. On January 26th, 1922, John was born Johannes Therkelsen, the youngest of four, in …
  • Conciliation and peaceful futures through art
    … we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can … because i believe in the power of healing and i believe in peaceful futures. When did you write it? After the Truth and Reconciliation of … My message about this landscape, the history and my hope for the future, is what carries me into the next iterations. Why did the …
  • New school, new country, new challenges
    … are funny, some are sad, and all show the resilience required by newcomers. Here are a few interesting ones: Twice as hard John Vandenburg, … for Canada. John Vandenberg, Netherlands, arrived 1951. (DI2016.260.1) “I did not like attending school in Montreal and learning two … in Chester, Nova Scotia. Now things started looking better.” (S2012.1926.1) …
  • New school, new country, new challenges
    … are funny, some are sad, and all show the resilience required by newcomers. Here are a few interesting ones: Twice as hard John Vandenburg, … for Canada. John Vandenberg, Netherlands, arrived 1951. (DI2016.260.1) “I did not like attending school in Montreal and learning two … in Chester, Nova Scotia. Now things started looking better.” (S2012.1926.1) …
  • Antonia Michele Leonardo
    … was rough which made the sailers work constantly on mopping up the food that didn't want to stay in the stomach. Upon entering the Halifax … Mother said: "My God, what forsaken place has your father brought us to?" You see, my Father was waiting for us in Toronto, he had preceded … my Mother, my brother and I. 58 years have gone by since that eventful day in Halifax, my Father is gone, so is my Mother and also my Brother, …
  • Research with Newcomer Children - Monica Valencia
    … So I would go to events or I will interview, I don’t know, newcomers. And then I saw this Master’s at Ryerson University. It was a one-year program: Immigration and Settlement Studies. I did the program. Two semesters. It was courses and then one semester, it was your own research. And I really enjoy that uh component of the program where I had the opportunity to design my own …

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