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… May 12, 1956 the Castel Felice arrives in Canada. It will take two days on a train before my father finds his roots in Toronto, Ontario. From this day forward the dream of a better life is realized in the children and … Thank you for the ambition, the sacrifices and the accomplishments we are so proud of. …
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… anniversary on January 4, 2003. I love this country dearly (don't always like the politicians!) and have few regrets. Somehow, I have always believed that if one works hard, (I was a nurse), and lives the … took this picture of me, with daughters Dawn and Virginia on Mothers Day, May 12, 2002. Margaret Mew (Felteau) …
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… We were deeply honoured to have poet, storyteller, singer and artist … previously created poem, Kmɨtkinu (“our homeland” in Mi’kmaw) which weaves together Mi’kmaw history, with calls for non-Indigenous peoples … the creative process behind Dancing Kmɨtkinu, the collaboration between shalan and Mocean Dance. The artist explained, “The new movement …
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… And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, … preservation and its loss- is meaningful to Lee. Last year, her mother died; her father’s memories were becoming harder to access because of … “Since the time I found the objects and moved my parents out, my mom died. Now my father is in palliative care. Working on this show is very …
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… And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, … preservation and its loss- is meaningful to Lee. Last year, her mother died; her father’s memories were becoming harder to access because of … “Since the time I found the objects and moved my parents out, my mom died. Now my father is in palliative care. Working on this show is very …
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… 1951 with her parents and her surviving brother and sister (Béla and Éva died before they left for Canada). In the years that followed, they … leave. Before the Iron Curtain could fall upon what would thereafter become Eastern Europe, he dragged his wife and their three surviving … picturing that, come the end of the war, things would return to the way they had been in his memories. It goes without saying that things …
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… The trip from Rotterdam took seven days and I arrived in Halifax full of hope and the expectation of … was placed overnight on a farm run by the Catholic Brothers. The next day I was placed with a rancher in Hartleyville, Alberta. There I … wife Doris Mader in Halifax and after serving 5 years with the RCAF, we moved with our young family, three daughters and a son, to Barrie, …
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… called Venzone He had papers that he would have a job with the CN railway. He did not know how to speak English. He noticed that his friends … working on the railroad as a worker and also cut hair on the side. One day a Poole Construction truck came by and said they needed a few men … up working for Poole/PCL construction for 43-years and went all the way up the ladder from a labourer to carpenter, to job site …
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… by the United Church in Hamilton, Ontario. They eventually made their way across the ocean to Canada on the M/S Anna Salen, spending two … Canadian soil. The next leg of their journey involved a two or three day train ride to Hamilton. Each person was given a few dollars for the … Street. Rev. McLeod had registered Victor, who was 16, at a local high school. He had also found jobs for the twins, who were 21, at …