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… Carr-Harris. Courtesy of Dr. Afua Cooper. Reckoning with an uncomfortable past is an important part of the job of any national history museum. … at the Museum in August of 2024 and has since begun travelling to sites across Canada. It deals with a grim and lesser-known chapter of …
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… were nurtured. Between the formation of a family, three maternity leaves and helping my husband in his growth as a mechanical engineer, I was able to finish my fine arts studies and my teacher training, as well as having extensive experience in visual arts … humanities at Laurentian University, and my husband quit his job in a company in order to start his own business. Then our life as immigrants …
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… on Arrival: 3 Arrived in Canada as a 3 year old. Travelled with my mother Antonia di Poce Cappuccitti and my older sister Santina Tersigni, she was 9 at the time. We were going to Toronto to meet my father …
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… Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Leo Johnson spent eight years in refugee camps after fleeing war-torn Liberia in 1998. He arrived in Canada in 2006. Leo was a semi-finalist in CBC’s Next Great Prime Minister Competition. He’s also received the YMCA Peace Medal and the World … Leo Nupolu Johnson …
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… Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Leo Johnson spent eight years in refugee camps after fleeing war-torn Liberia in 1998. He arrived in Canada in 2006. Leo was a semi-finalist in CBC’s Next Great Prime Minister Competition. He’s also received the YMCA Peace Medal and the World … Leo Nupolu Johnson, Described Video …
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… was the youngest child of Lambert and Freda (Bishop) Taylor - which she enjoyed pointing out to her five sisters and brother. Family and friends were Pamela’s love and …
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… My mother, Beatrice Whiteley , passed away at the age of 86. She loved her … in 1981. We came with the War Brides, but to join my father who had come as an immigrant. As an RAF aircrew trainee, he had been a member …
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… His sister’s case of the measles landed six-year-old Mike Sumner’s family in quarantine after … spoke to my dad and he thinks it was around 3 to 4 weeks that we were there,” Mike recalled. “The brick walls and the bars on the windows. “My … as we crossed over. On the boat I assume. And by the time we got here, she was full blown measles. And I do remember walking up a hill…to the …
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… wasn’t moving and I—we had told—we were told never to open our port holes and I went over and I thought, We’ve got to be in port if we’re not … it, I was so relieved, to get safely here. And I—I’ll never forget coming into Halifax and then two soldiers came on and they took the …
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… My name is Dil Darjee. I was born in Bhutan. I moved to Nepal and settled in the Refugee Camp in the eastern part of Nepal. In the camp, … options those were staying in the refugee camp or third country settlement in the eight different countries such as Canada, USA, Australia, … are two organizations set up, UNHCR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and IOM (International Organization for …