- War Brides …
- Cold War Politics …
- by Jan Raska, Ph.D., Historian In the 1920s, immigrants from Czechoslovakia came to Canada in search of industrial work and available land for agriculture. Czechoslovakia’s diplomats in Canada promoted loyalty to Prague’s policies in the hopes that Slovaks and Czechs would unite into a …
- Not all immigration stories are a straight line. Abdoulaye Baldé's journey, with steps forwards and backwards was a series of difficult life lessons. “I consider Canada to be my university,” he says. The youngest of four, Abdoulaye grew up in Guinea-Conakry surrounded by a fiercely protective …
- 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 …
- Life in the United States Time 0:01:49 Transcript So, it was very, if I were to sum up my childhood, I would say it was a very comfortable, safe, solid childhood where I had the opportunities and resources to do well at school, to have nice activities. It was—it was a good place to grow up. Now, by …
- Changing Awareness - Peter Seixas …
- Time 0:03:50 Transcript My life was simple. I was happy with my role of young bride and mom in Carpinone, a small Italian village of the Molise Region. And then we decided to emigrate to Canada. My husband came few months earlier, so that he could prepare for us, and on November 10, 1966, my son …
- Political Involvement and Divisiveness - Frank Scarfino …
- Life in the United States Time 0:03:04 Transcript I was one of the, yes, I was one of the,—it would be arrogant to say student leaders, but I was one of the co-presidents of a group that was, I don’t know if you heard about it here, but the Students for Democratic Society. So, we were—there was a …