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Immigrant stories and experiences
Passages to Canada
http://www.passagestocanada.com/index.asp
Welcome to the Citizenship and Immigration feature of The Memory Project. Passages to Canada is a national storytelling initiative that provides Canadians with a greater understanding and appreciation of the contributions that immigrants and refugees make to Canada.Canadian Immigration Process
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Pier21/index_e.html
Historical context, a variety of countries and characters, and an imaginative approach make this educational tool effective and fun.Speakers' Bureau - Passages to Canada
http://www.passagestocanada.com/request_event_page.asp
Connect to the Passages to Canada Speakers' Bureau and invite an immigrant community leader to your school or community organization. The Passages to Canada Speakers' Bureau is a diverse group of over 450 immigrants and refugees who have been selected to share their experiences with youth and community groups. There are 3 Passages Modules - Immigration, Anti-Racism and Employer. Presentations are themed by request.CASSA - PROMPT
http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/cassa-prompt
Lists of media articles and press releases. Some areas require authorization.
Previous listings:
http://list.web.net/archives/cassa-prompt/2005-March.txt
http://list.web.net/archives/cassa-prompt/2005-April/000183.html
http://list.web.net/archives/cassa-prompt/2005-May.txt etc.Canada Immigrant Job Issues
http://www.canadaimmigrants.com/
Canadaimmigrants offers this space to all of you wanting to say something regarding biased hiring and employment practices by companies in Canada or related issues addressed on our site. How widespread is discrimination against visible minorities in Canada's job market? Contact us to share your experiences and we will post on our forum… "To all immigrants and potential immigrants: Never forget that we have chosen Canada to have a better life. Ergo, do not underestimate the value of your qualifications. Ask for the 'right' job. By sacrificing our present, we are also sacrificing our children's present, and consequently... their future”...Immigrant Voices
http://www.canadianhistory.ca/iv/main.html
Hundreds of images, documents, maps, and graphs (including interactive maps and graphs and panorama images). The narrative was written by post-secondary students and scholars and reviewed by professional historians.People on the move: Your stories
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3399803.stm
BBC migration stories - "Global Village Voices"How to get into Canada
http://www.etext.org/Politics/Essays/get.into.canada
Why Canada? Canada has the most generous of all government benefit programs as well as being the easiest country to get into in the whole world.NotCanada.com
http://complacentnation.com/cnblog/index.php?serendipity%5Baction%5D=search&
serendipity%5BsearchTerm%5D=immigration
NotCanada.com is run by a team of former Canadian citizens, who have now permanently left Canada: A land of shattered dreams. Read the famous Top Eight Reasons Why NOT to Immigrate to Canada: 8. Discriminatory and Dishonest Immigration System. 7. Out Of Control Cost Of Living. 6. Health Care Crisis. 5. Very High Taxes. 4. Money Hungry Government. 3. No Culture. 2. Worst Weather. 1. No Jobs. Complacent Nation, October 16, 2005Immigration Guides
http://www.immigrationguides.com/
Your essential guide to moving to Canada. Forums, FAQs and success stories.International Mobility in Higher Education
http://www.cicic.ca/mobility/indexe.stm
Africa, Americas, Arab States, Asia/Pacific, European Region, Mediterranean Region, International Instruments and Tools, Trends and Perspectives; National Information Centre Database; Assessment of Diplomas. Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC)A Multicultural Profile of Canada
http://www.myschool.gc.ca/events/archives/canada2017/fellegi_e.ppt
Summary of the immigrant experience.Pier 21
http://www.pier21.ca/
Collection of stories from people that arrived through Pier 21. Displaced Persons / Refugees, Evacuee Children, Child Migrants, Home Children, Immigrants, Veterans, War Brides.National Film Board of Canada: Immigrant Experience
http://www.nfb.ca/atonf/organisation.php?v=h&lg=en
The NFB, initially known as the National Film Commission, was created by an act of Parliament in 1939. Its mandate is to produce and distribute and to promote the production and distribution of films designed to interpret Canada to Canadians and to other nations. List of films, Destination Canada multimedia kit, etc.Film about immigrants
http://www.touchbase.ca/articles/features.htm
The motivation to do the film is to bridge gaps in understanding between immigrants and mainstream Canadians. “I want people to wake up to reality... One saw so much of the good side of humanity after the tsunami tragedy. But why does it have to take a tragedy to make people human?”
Passages to Canada
Documenting the Immigrant Experience
http://www.passagestocanada.com/index.asp
Learn about the Canadian immigrant experience through personal memorabilia and first-hand testimonials.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/bulletin/015017-0101-11-e.html
A group of women whose lives have been largely unexamined - Irish domestic servants… Marilyn Barber concluded that although domestic service offered an opportunity for Irish women to save for a better life, it could also lead to downward mobility for those who were unable to adapt… While the asylum records lacked sufficient data to draw general conclusions, individual case records contained intriguing suggestions of the social, emotional and physical stresses that these Irish domestics faced.Making Migrants Part of Society: The Canadian Experience
http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4067
My parents are Chinese. My grandfather was an immigrant to Australia from his poverty-stricken area of China called the Pearl River Delta... My father was born in a village in Australia at the beginning of the 20th century… My mother's family had gone in the middle of the 19th century to what now is Surinam, but then was Dutch Guyana... They owned cocoa and coffee plantations. After three generations, her family returned to Hong Kong with their money and settled in to a life which was dependent upon the British… The surrender of Hong Kong to the Japanese at the end of 1941 meant that we were living under occupation... Eventually, we made our way to Ottawa, where, with one suitcase apiece, we began our lives at the beginning of winter in 1942… There was no official status for us as refugees, because it was so unlikely at that time that anyone would ever find their way to Canada as a refugee…There was no formal structure to integrate us into Canadian society. The Ottawa we came to was a small white place with large white people… We are a country that welcomes the world. Our predominant numbers of citizens now come from non-white sources. We have made this adaptation basically within the last twenty-five years... I believe that participation is the only way in which our country can continue to grow, in understanding of itself and in understanding of the world. - Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson - Conference on Integration of Immigration, Brussels, 2003The Chong Show
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/politics/article.jsp?content=20060220_121831_121831
At 34, the small-town Ontario MP who got the intergovernmental affairs portfolio is the youngest cabinet minister. Michael Chong grew up near Fergus, Ont., in southwestern Ontario farm country. His father was a Chinese immigrant physician, his mother a Dutch immigrant nurse and homemaker. After arriving in Canada almost penniless in 1952, his father went on to remarkable achievements. He worked his way through the University of Manitoba to earn a bachelor of science degree, and then completed medical school at the University of Ottawa. He met his future wife while training as a specialist in internal medicine at Queen's University. Chong says his father, despite being a trailblazer, never sought recognition for himself as an immigrant success story. "My father was one of the most humble men I have ever known," Chong says. "He did not want any attention whatsoever. He really believed in the idea that doctors are there to help people." Chong's mother gave up nursing to be a stay-at-home mom to her four children... MacLeans, February 15, 2006.Biography
Noted authors discuss the immigrant experience
http://www.gg.ca/media/fs-fd/G2_e.asp
She was born in Port au Prince, Haiti. As a young child in 1968, she and her family left her country and sought refuge in Canada… As she pursued her studies, Michaëlle Jean worked for eight years, from 1979 to 1987, with shelters and transition homes for abused women in Quebec. She was also involved in aid organizations for immigrant women and families, and worked at Employment and Immigration Canada and the Conseil des Communautés culturelles du Québec... For 18 years, Michaëlle Jean enjoyed a brilliant career as a journalist and anchor of information programs… Michaëlle Jean has won numerous honours for her professional achievements... Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/060519-2322.asp
In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, authors Shyam Selvadurai (Funny Boy), Nazneen Sheikh (Tea and Pomegranates: A Memoir of Family Food and Kashmir) and Cyril Dabydeen (Drums of My Flesh) will take part in a panel discussion. The event, entitled Enigmas of Departure: Rethinking South Asian Diaspora, will address topics such as gender, diaspora, settlement patterns, hybridity and identity. The authors have been asked to discuss how their writing relates to the notion of Asian heritage.A Chinese Canadian Story
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/yipsang/index.html
Yip Sang came to Vancouver in 1881. He first worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and later started a business in Vancouver's Chinatown. Yip Sang was one of Vancouver's most successful merchants in the early 1900s. His wealth allowed him to support four wives and to raise 23 children. Generations of Yips have grown up in Vancouver, and hundreds of Yip Sang's descendents live throughout North America. This web site tells more about Yip Sang, his family, and his legacy to Vancouver.Out of Many, One People
Adjusting to life in Toronto - perspectives of young Jamaican immigrants
http://www.journalism.ryerson.ca/online/spectrum/city/dlbailey.htm
When I was six years old, my mother, an elementary school teacher, left Jamaica and moved to Toronto in search of greater financial stability and a better life in general… English is Jamaica's official language, yet some Jamaican young people are put into English as a Second Language (ESL) classes because they speak patois (a dialect of English widely spoken in Jamaica). Sometimes it is at school that they experience racism for the first time...Baba, you had a car with a driver?
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=
Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1151100129904&call_page=TS_DiversityProject&call_pageid
=1151071158868&call_pagepath=GTA/Diversity_Project
In Bangladesh, Kamal Milki was a manager, supervising multi-million-dollar projects in the textiles industry. He carried a cellphone, a laptop, he travelled business class. The family lived in Shanghai and Cambodia… But he wanted stability for his wife and son - good health care and schools, safe neighbourhoods… In Canada, he sells furniture at The Brick, on 100 % commission. At first, he was upset. Then he got to know his colleagues. Lawyers, chartered accountants, MBAs. "I realized we were in the same boat." The Star, 2006YouthLinks: The Immigration Experience
http://www.youthlinks.org/students/browse.do?type=2&round
ID=current&minPriority=1&language=session
High school students connect on global issues and Canadian history.The Immigrant Experience: Teenagers
http://webhome.idirect.com/~mccann/immigrant.htm
Read and share the personal experiences of teenagers who have started new lives in a new country.Immigrants' Life Histories Paint the Picture
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=4c5f969b-682
c-4de5-ad5a-f10477f21bc7&k=21317
Cultural background may determine whether a child benefits from ESL classes. - She was just a little girl from Tuy Hoa, Vietnam, when Tran Ngo's parents uprooted the family and moved to Canada in search of better opportunities for their children."My dad, he worked like three jobs to support us," Ngo, now 29 and a resident of North Vancouver, recalled of those early years growing up in Edmonton. "His main goal was to get his family educated. "Education for our family and our extended family is all they talk about."
Success in education, however, proved no easy goal.Immigrants welcome, roadblocks ahead
http://globeandmail.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/
20040218/CAIMMI18?section=HomePage
She was one of almost 2,000 people who applied for 50 intern positions in the Career Bridge program set up last fall by the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council and the national non-profit organization Career Edge… Globe & Mail, 2004RoseNet
http://www.rosenet-ca.org/index.htm
Rose's Story: following Rose's story, you can learn by linking to legal information related to her life. The Facts: links to information on help for abused women.The words
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/
Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1151099409951&call_pageid=1151071158868&col=1151071158883
Merlyn James, a hairdresser from Trinidad, now a high school teacher, said it best: They come here for betterment. They leave behind everyone and everything they know to exhaust their savings and sometimes courage in a country that offers opportunity, but only to the most determined, the ones who never say die. They pump your gas, count your change, sell you furniture at The Brick. They teach your children... The enormity of their endeavour, the humility and surprising good cheer with which they face the odds is humbling, a reminder of how every family must begin —how our parents or grandparents began. The faces have changed, the struggle is the same. The Star, 2006
Immigration from different regions
Why Would Americans Move to Canada?
http://immigration.about.com/od/livingincanada/a/USLibstoCanada_2.htm
Information and resources about immigration to Canada.EscapeArtist.com
http://www.escapeartist.com/Articles/Articles_16.html
Moving & retiring overseas, overseas retirement websites, overseas living informationSouth Asians Living in or Migrating to Canada
http://www.canadiandesi.com/
Community Website, discussion forums, shopping, employment, community events.South Asian Women's Studies Bibliography
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/sawomen.html
Bibliographies/Directories | Biographies | Videos | Indexes to Journal Articles
General Works | Web Sites / Online DatabasesThe Holland Canada Line
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thehollandcanadaline/
Emigrating from the Netherlands to Canada.South Africans Coming to Canada
http://www.sacanada.org/
Wide range of discussion forums of South African immigrants.Canadian Asian
http://www.canadianasian.com/
Information and discussion forums of Asians living in Canada.The Italian Immigrant Experience - Book review
http://www.utpjournals.com/product/chr/711/italian5.html
Book, based on an exhaustive examination of archives in Canada and in Italy, offers a penetrating evaluation of the cultural and social forces affecting the Italians who came to live in Toronto.The Italian Immigrant Experience
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=9282
Library, archive, museum and school all in one. Check the collection to find Canadian local histories in French and English. Check Educational Resources for learning packages for students and teachers. Check back with us often – we’re always adding more.Oral History Program
http://www.ohfs.org/OralHistory.htm
A collaboration between the Orpheus Hellenic Folklore Society and the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center: To gather information that captures the Greek immigrant experience for the intention of providing material for the HMCC archives.A Story To Be Told
http://www.astorytobetold.ca/home.html
Fifty years of personal accounts of the Irish Immigrant experience in Canada... This project seems bountiful both in the possibilities of interesting people to encounter and the richness in which the Irish can tell their story.Walk a Mile - The Immigrant Experience in Canada
http://www.settlement.org/site/celebrate/stories_walk.asp
The project was designed to raise awareness of the issues newcomers face as they take steps to integrate into Canadian society. It strives to humanize the newcomer experience in Canada, to put human faces on the statistics we read about in the newspapers.Britain to Canada Immigration
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/britaintocanadaimmigration/
Discussion groups.
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