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Time 0:02:21 Transcript When I was little I used to love going to my grandmother’s house. It was filled with family portraits and china that had come from England as well as her paintings of Nova Scotia. She served tea in the afternoon, and even after 50 years in Canada had maintained her British …
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… Bishop's permission. She left W.R.N.S after 5 years at her own request due to marriage and emigrating to Canada. Due to the restrictions in the Indian Navy about marrying …
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Time 0:03:06 Transcript Coming back to Mexico after two years living in Canada was exciting, we met with our family; enjoy our house with our son, it was a dream come true, right? Well the reality woke us up abruptly. We found soldiers on the streets, the Mexican government had a war with the drug …
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… An interview with Linda Granfield, who, 49 years ago, arrived in Canada with two pots, two … I also had that grandmother who married a Canadian First World War soldier in England. He was killed in France in August 1918. She received … It’s sometimes difficult—I’ve been verbally attacked for coming here from the United States. Some of the Canadian media’s …
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… that I knew, you know, I had friends that were going off to war, maybe die, might be injured, traumatized by what they've seen and done. You … little apprehensive still when I cross the border to the US and when I come home. There's that sigh of relief as you come across to Canadian … on the, back on the 401 in Ontario and you're headed home. So, Canada is my home, and has been for a long time. Oral History 16.03.04RP …
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… Stories in Dutch Dad's Story Dad's Story (English) Children's Stories AE Didi Murphy Willem Kreeft …
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Time 0:03:23 Transcript I thought Canada was the most boring place in the world when I was growing up. It was so very white and English speaking then. But I had family members who worked in countries I thought were exotic and they told me stories of their adventures. When I graduated from …
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Time 0:02:52 Transcript I didn't know how cold it would be in Canada until our arriving in the winter of 2007. In that December, we received winter storms almost every week; people wore heavy boots and thick coats, streets were piled up with snow like grey walls. Coming from Taiwan where we have …
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Time 0:02:36 Transcript Here I was riding a bike for my first time at 16… falling, getting back up. I wanted to be able to ride a bike like everyone else. Growing up in a small knit cultural & religious community in Ontario, everyone knows what you’re up to ALL the time, so basically my whole …
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… to flourish. Giulio Cesare and Gabriela Maria Alessandroni with their daughter Anna Teresa. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 … her Anna Teresa, in honour of my father’s own and only sister who had died suddenly at the age of 21. And within two years of her birth, the … patch made of cotton pushed into place by glasses, my father never complained of his trials, but pursued life with kindness, gentleness …