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  • Conciliation and peaceful futures through art
    … (pictured onstage) is the author of the the poem Kmɨtkinu, which was adapted into a dance piece with collabotors Sarah Prosper, Susanne Chui, … we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can … an abstract sharing circle i imagine myself within, among family, community, and all people here. I write it this way because i believe …
  • Art and Artifact
    … 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, … two months she lived in the house she’d grown up in , faced with the daunting task of going through the house and deciding what to keep and … preservation and its loss- is meaningful to Lee. Last year, her mother died; her father’s memories were becoming harder to access because of …
  • Conciliation and peaceful futures through art
    … (pictured onstage) is the author of the the poem Kmɨtkinu, which was adapted into a dance piece with collabotors Sarah Prosper, Susanne Chui, … we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can … an abstract sharing circle i imagine myself within, among family, community, and all people here. I write it this way because i believe …
  • Art and Artifact
    … 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, … two months she lived in the house she’d grown up in , faced with the daunting task of going through the house and deciding what to keep and … preservation and its loss- is meaningful to Lee. Last year, her mother died; her father’s memories were becoming harder to access because of …
  • Quotes
    … of the cold land and the large amount of snow, where people were different and spoke a foreign language.” (Anonietta Lanni nee Venditti) Deciding to Leave ”I know that my father loved his family, his … accustomed to and I thought to myself this is awful what am I going to do if this is what bread is like in Canada?” (Lucia Luigia Guglietti) …
  • Aamir Mirza
    … Bringing His Family to Canada Time 0:04:05 Transcript I told all my family members that there is a … brother they were all well established and they had no intention to come and start from scratch. But I told them my assessment is that it … there is less chance that I’ll move back to Pakistan. If you want to come to Canada, it’s good for your children, for you children’s future, …
  • Rudolf E. Braune
    … My Story By Rudolf E. Braune On April 20th, 1951 at the age of 31, I boarded the S.S. … ugly war, time spent in a Russian prison, and had an opportunity to become a 'guest of General Eisenhower' in the USA as a sought after … a new country would offer me a new beginning. So, on that fateful day, I struck out on my own, leaving everything I knew behind: my …
  • Ernst Radke
    … brother and his wife came to Canada in 1929 and they encouraged us to come as well. Two more of my father’s brothers also decided to … supplies for the travel across the Atlantic Ocean. The journey took 10 days. The seas were very rough for the first 9 days. My father said … not allowed to leave their land but we received special permission due to my mother’s serious health issues. Her doctor wrote a letter …
  • Herman Newman
    … that was so dear to Herman's heart. Every year on Remembrance Day he would make a pilgrimage to the Pier. He would gaze over the …
  • Beulah Cynthia Searle
    … I arrived at Pier 21, November 6, 1946 after a ten day Sea Voyage on the Empire Brent. I travelled by train to London, …

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