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… Refugee camp. In Malao Refugee camp life was very hard and lot of people were poor, and can’t afford foods. Then we moved again. I remember the day I came to Canada. I was very little and didn’t know much, but I did know that I was going far away. I … what kind of food is that. The food was awful. When I came to Welcome house. I thought to myself WOW THIS HOUSE IS BIG, but then someone …
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… Canada four years earlier to begin working in order to save money to pay for our trip and to buy a house. It took us four hours, by car, to get to the city of Naples where we boarded the ship "Conte Biancamano". I will …
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… And he did. I stayed behind. In the summer of 1989 more and more people escaped from East Germany to West Germany over the Ungarien, and … or understanding English, when the wall came down. My home was celebrating the united Germany. I was so happy for my people, but so very … people here in the Yukon, I began to believe in myself. I learned to become a professional child care worker and after years I decided to go …
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… Inge Nielsen Inge came to Canada with her sister Birthe Marie and mother Ellen Margrethe Nielsen. Inge has … immigration so he decided to emigrate to Canada. In the summer of 1928 he set sail for Canada and may have disembarked in Quebec. There with … Ellen M. Nielsen, Birthe and Inge …
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… Inscription on the Cross worn by the Sisters of Service – “I have come to serve” Born in Windsor, Ontario, Florence Kelly moved with her parents at the age of 7 to a farm in Greenock, Township, Bruce County, Ontario, where she spent her formative years. She learned a lot in that time, …
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… past, is a building. For visitors past and present, some find this site unmoving. They give little thought to what the walls and their … Pier 21 to the thousands of refugees and displaced people who arrived here during the 1940s and early 1950s, better than any of the histories … one of our summer students. It was a quiet day in the exhibition and she saw a man sitting alone on one of the benches in the Rudolph Peter …
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… a scholarship from University of Toronto for her master degree, so she left us. My daughter got her first job in Toronto in 2000, then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … Since we came here, my husband and I stay at home with cooking, cleaning, doing grocery shopping and taking care of my granddaughters. I …
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… Saskatoon airport on an early September afternoon although I had a woolen suit and an over coat in addition to two layers of undergarments. I … face of the only person I knew from Bhubaneswar and thought all my problems are now over. Very soon I realized that I was the poorest in town … Iran, and Egypt. They were all agriculture students and so we could compare and contrast agriculture in our respective countries. We played …
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… at the prospect of venturing to a new land, all the way on the other side of the ocean, and my desire for adventure, (I was 15), made my … ports to pick up passengers, we arrived in Lisbon, the last European city before crossing the Atlantic. In total, the crossing took 13 days. … at the bow of the ship watching it slice through and part the waters, sea foam spraying, dolphins racing alongside. It was here that I …
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… Builder Time 0:04:07 Transcript: Hello. My name is Ron Marsh. I am here today at Pier 21 Immigration Museum to talk about the Empress of … I got the plans for the ship from the Keeper of the Keys in Scotland. She was built in Scotland, actually, at Fairfield Shipbuilding and …