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… ready to feel what it was like maybe to have been on the ship. You can experience their last view as they’re sailing away. And then, as you go through the exhibit you can feel what it would have been like to be on the ship and … And then as you leave, you will have met some characters and then you can see again whether, you know they’re fate after you’ve gone through …
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… Time 0:01:13 Transcript: A major form of communication within the steamships that brought immigrants to Canada were voice tubes, or voice pipes, as this example seen display salvaged directly from the 1914 wreck of the RMS Empress of Ireland. We built some working …
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… donated it to us for this exhibit. This tent is a part of Refuge Canada to show what temporary settlement living is like for different … temporary settlement so they’ll get something like this tent. People can learn what it’s like to live in close quarters with each other. How … might settle in and know that you’ll be there for a couple years. You can also learn how you can make do with very little objects in your …
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… at the Museum are likely to see a giant teddy bear wearing a black hat that says “Immigration.” Kids (and kids at heart) always seem … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … writing about herself in the third person: She cuddled Teddy, her constant companion and whispered in his ear, ”we are really going to …
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… at the Museum are likely to see a giant teddy bear wearing a black hat that says “Immigration.” Kids (and kids at heart) always seem … immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … writing about herself in the third person: She cuddled Teddy, her constant companion and whispered in his ear, ”we are really going to …
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… of immigrants’ “Day 1” experiences. Curator's Tours: Transcript Welcome to Canada: Day 1. This exhibition looks at the very first day an … first impressions, first thoughts, first feelings about Canada, from confederation right up to the present day. It’s a look at that very … day in Canada. 150 years of first days in Canada of moments of jubilation, excitement, sadness, capturing different aspects of that first …
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… cultural norms and practices are critical steps towards cultural competency. This program is designed to move learners from a personal … fabric of Canada. Explore culture and identity through interactive collaborative and individual games. Learners will create a button to … identity, discover the various ways that cultures interact in a community in a fun, hands-on way with building bricks, and engage their …
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… block out of pre-cut fabric with adhesive backing. The blocks formed a larger design, representing how personal stories form a collective migration story of coming from “elsewhere”. Artist-in-Residence 2017 Andrea Tsang Jackson …
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… A grade 3 class is enjoying one of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions called Kids … round table in the Hanukkah section, there are four boys spinning dreidels. A dreidel is a wooden top that has been used by Jewish kids and … their older sister’s graduation ceremony, or at a classical music concert, or in the middle of the Trans-Canada highway. But the Museum …
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… A grade 3 class is enjoying one of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions called Kids … round table in the Hanukkah section, there are four boys spinning dreidels. A dreidel is a wooden top that has been used by Jewish kids and … their older sister’s graduation ceremony, or at a classical music concert, or in the middle of the Trans-Canada highway. But the Museum …