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  • Finding Peace by Selene
    … 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 …
  • Jeanne Beker unpacks her wardrobe… and her past
    … a displaced persons camp in Austria, they came to Canada. This trunk accompanied them on their voyage across the Atlantic after the Second …
  • Pearl Brill Narzemsky
    … my mother I was closer to New York and knew that I would be there one day. I was fortunate in that I could speak Yiddish and could at least … when I was reunited with my mother in 1930. We lived on the Lower East Side in New York. Shortly after arriving in New York I married Irving …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … was done by CIC. Emily Burton (EB): So then you had an apartment? MKG: Yeah, we got an apartment. For eighteen days, we simply, I still remember, for eighteen days we didn’t get a chance to cook our Nepalese food. That was the terrible part. That was … We couldn’t cook our food. So, we simply depend upon the bread and the jam for eighteen days. So as soon as we shifted to our apartment, we …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … They provided us everything, immigration. Our sponsor group from our community from the church were helping us to take us to the different … just ate our Nepalese food. EB: Were you able to find all of the ingredients, or most of the ingredients that you were used to? MKG: Yes. Yeah, everything was there. We …
  • Kookoo Sabzi - Naz Deravian
    … quickly turn mushy). Add the green onions and the rest of the ingredients except for the eggs and the oil to the green herbs and give a stir to combine. Add the eggs and mix well to combine. The batter should have … to celebrate the vibrant culinary scene in Canada and introduce our upcoming exhibition eat make share: a taste of immigration . This …
  • "Might Be the Best of the Lot": Baltic Refugees, Canadian Immigration Policy and the Arrival of SS Walnut
    … immigration officials have considered many factors in determining whether an individual was ‘admissible’ and would be granted entry to Canada. The arrival in Canada of SS Walnut from Sweden in December 1948, … "Might Be the Best of the Lot": Baltic Refugees, Canadian Immigration Policy and the Arrival …
  • Driving Canada: A Collaborative Oral History Project
    By Haroon Khalid, Anam Zakaria, and Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian “Reality is reality. It is more difficult than imagination…We’re adapting, whatever’s happening. We were okay, we’re still okay, and we will always be okay, hopefully.” Rammah Mohammad. [1] Introduction In 2024, the Canadian …
  • Carmine, Antonietta Perri and Family
    … I was 9 years old when I emigrated to Canada in May, 1957 with my mother Antonietta … of the southern region of Calabria. I remember feeling anxious and sad to leave my friends and relatives behind, especially my maternal …
  • Pte. Lawrence J. Hebert
    … Lawrence Joseph Hebert November 27, 1920 - October 4, 2000 My father enlisted on June 16, 1941 and was discharged on January 26, 1946. He was in the first wave at Juno Beach on D-Day. That is all he would ever say. He wouldn't talk about his … Pte. Lawrence J. Hebert …

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