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… spot to be helped by the United Nations. After a year, my grandpa died, because he had no one to take care of him. We got accepted to … in a factory as a labourer. It was a hard job for him, but he never complained. I also worked there too, for one summer. When metal is …
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… As the months passed, forms started to arrive from the High commissioner for Canada Office in London, travel certificates, immigration … for me to be able to carry with me on my travels. Finally departure day arrived. My trunk had gone on ahead and I just had my one piece of … to our local train station where the train would take me up to London. It must have been very difficult time for my Mother, her youngest …
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… Pier 21 today, as it was in years past, is a building. For visitors past and … people who arrived here during the 1940s and early 1950s, better than any of the histories that I have read or documentaries that I have seen. Heather was one of our summer students. It was a quiet day in the exhibition and …
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… Arrival: 10 months Black and white photograph of a group of adults and one baby dining aboard the passenger ship the Saturnia. The photograph shows two women seated at a table, one of which is holding the arm of a baby seated in front of her. A … stopped at the following ports: New York, Boston, Halifax-Ponta Delgada, Lisbon, Casablanca, Gibraltar, Palma De Mallorca, Barcelona, …
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… exhibition SS Maasdam , is shown as a child with her family in one of the ship’s cabins, on their way to Canada. Credit: Tesseron … and arrived in Canada as a child. Here he cooks over an open fire in one of Canada’s national parks. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration …
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… exhibition SS Maasdam , is shown as a child with her family in one of the ship’s cabins, on their way to Canada. Credit: Tesseron … and arrived in Canada as a child. Here he cooks over an open fire in one of Canada’s national parks. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration …
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… came and in front of all the students told the Bahai’s to stop coming to school from tomorrow. At this moment I felt I lost my … So I didn’t have any choice except start to work hard to establish a comfortable life for my future in Kuwait. which I was succeed to have … which was place for most of the singers, actors, actress, artists to come & take their photos. That made a comfortable life for me & my …
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… parts of Canada. My story is a little different. Not only did I come a different way, (by train) and from a different direction (from … Montreal so I went back onto the ship and arrived at Montreal the next day. My ultimate destination was Eastern Canada and therefore I already … of this big city, the first major North American city that I had a chance to visit. I stared with awe at the huge buildings, particularly …
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… to immigrate to Canada after talking to Pedro’s brother who had come to Winnipeg, Manitoba as a refugee shortly after the coup. Ruth, …
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… hard, pursing a goal tenaciously, and taking pride in a job well done. He helped us appreciate how adversity brings out the best in a person. Dad grew up in Rodalben, a picturesque village in the Rheinland Pfalz region of south-west Germany, next to the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. Residents invariably …