Canada comprised of many different cultures, nations and religions.
Engage in a conversation with your family about the journey and reason why your family choose to come to Canada and why they decided to leave their homeland to emigrate to another country.
Include information such as, year, family members, reasons for leaving, reason for selecting Canada as their new home.
Emigrant vs. Immigrant
When a person emigrate, he/she leaves one country or region to live in another either temporarily or permanently. When he/she immigrates arrives in that other country. In other words, he/she emigrates from one country to immigrate to another country.
While emigratus referred to "moving away," immigratus referred to "moving into."
My dad's great grandparents came to Canada more than a century ago. They came from Ukraine, where it was hard to make a living. They liked the idea of Canada because there was an offer of free land for immigrants who were willing to move to places like Alberta and Manitoba. Ukrainians were not always welcomed at first by Canadians but over the generations they have become proud members of society.
ReplyDeleteMy mom came to Canada in the 1997's. She decided to come to Canada because she wanted a experience. My mom heard there was a visa and you can go any where you want and my mom wanted to live in Canada so she decided to come to Canada.
ReplyDeletemy moms gradparents came to canda in 1977 they lived in st.vincent they came here because there was all ways flooding and tordos
ReplyDeleteand they just wanted a better life and it was good fro them because they got a better life and it was good for them because they got better life and there kids went to school and it was better for them to.
My parents chose Canada because they read on a paper that Canada is safe place to live.
ReplyDeleteMy parents left their homeland because it is hard to find a decent job that pays a average amount of money and the prices were very expensive
My parents came to Canada in December 1992
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ReplyDeleteMy Dad's parents came to Canada in May 1964.
ReplyDeleteThey moved away from Greece to have a better life.
They chose Canada because someone else in their family had already moved their.
My came from Bangladesh to Canada in 2003. They chose to come to Canada because it is a very safe place to live and Bangladesh it was very dangerous.
ReplyDeleteMy mom came in march 10th1980 only because of the war and my grandpa picked Canada
ReplyDeleteonly because it was the first ideal flight away and a war broke out between Eritrea and Ethiopia
(Which my land WON) and she never really liked it here the jobs were hard to find, the people were
not friendly, and not that much family is here also when my mom noticed sh was pregnant I was expected to be born there so there is always a reason for something I write!# CULTURE
On my dad's side my great-great grandparents on my grandmothers side her family came from Liverpool England around the 1900 and other great great grandparents came from Chicago and England around the same time. My grandfather great-great-great-great-great immigrated to Canada from England in 1880. On my mom's side my great-grandmother immigrated to Canada form England because her father had a job lined up for being a lithographer which was in the printing business in Montreal and had family in Toronto so that's why they moved. They came by boat in 1921 after World War I when she was eight.
ReplyDeleteMy mom's parents were born here and my great grandparents were born here , great great grandparents immigrated here from England and Ireland in the 1800's . They came here to start a new life and for work. My dad was born here and my grandparents immigrated here from Portugal in 1970 . My grandfather came here first to find work and find a place to live and then he sent for his fiance to come here who is my grandma. My mom's great grandparents came here by boat and my dad's parents came here by plane.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad first came to Canada in 1987 from Poland because he was going on tour to Canada and the United States with the Polish National Ballet. He went on tour so he could look for artistic freedom because in Poland you can only do ballet be he wanted to go further then that he wanted to learn more and be a free dancer. My dad stayed in Canada because he ran away from Poland then got EXPELLED for leaving. If you look up "polish dancers defecting from warsaw ballet in toronto 1987" you will see the name Robert Glumbek and that was my dad. After he decided to stay in Canada. Then about 11 years later he had a performance and there my Mom was in the crowd and thats how the met.
ReplyDeleteMy dad's side lived in Grenada for severel year's. Then in 1970 my grandpa came to Canada for a better job and more money. My grandma decided to come to canada because she heard that they have better education system for the children and so he came to McMurrich 40 year's ago.
ReplyDeleteMy mom had a penfriend who she met in Bali, Indonesia and she came to visit that friend Renee, and they took my mom to their
cottage where she met my dad. They kept in touch for three years before they met again. Once they spent two weeks together they knew they really liked each other. After five years of knowing each other my dad proposed marriage to my mother. She too decided to move to Toronto because she knew it would be where my dad lived its and a great place to start a family.
MY MOM'S PARENTS:
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather is one of 14 children (11 boys and 3 girls). He left portugal as a teenager to escape serving time in the military (his other brothers did the same when their age came up). He moved to France where he lived for a few years working odd jobs as a carpenter apprentice. He then moved to Canada in his early twenties (1967) where he met up with his brothers who he has not seen in many years. He was not allowed to return to Portugal for many years because he did not serve military time.
My grandmother has 7 sisters. She is one of 4 sisters who were selected by their parents to work the farmland and later, when money was available, they had a choice to emigrate from Portugal. The other 3 sisters had their education funded and continued to live in Portugal. My grandmother left a small farming town in portugal to move to the U.S.A to live with her sister, in hopes of making a better life for herself. Unfortunately there were confusion with her documents and during a stop-over in Toronto, Ontario (1968), she was not allowed back on the airplane. Fortunately during this time, there were many Portuguese people immigrating into Canada, and a lawyer recommended by the Portuguese Embassy matched her up with a local family who took her in.
MY DAD'S PARENTS:
My grandmother immigrated to Canada (1967) when she was 18 years old and was a nanny to a wealthy family and their children. She was lucky because she had sisters who already immigrated. Soon all her siblings (9) and her parents left Portugal to live in Canada.
My grandfather left Portugal looking for opportunities and a better life in Canada (1970). He always dreamed of being a entrepreneur and shortly after arriving, opened his own clothes cleaners store.
Both came from the same small town in St.Miguel island and meet up in Toronto.
MY PARENTS:
My parents are first generation Canadians which makes me a second generation Canadian.
My mother fist came to Canada in 1982 from Ecuador at age 17 after high school on a trip because it was a gift from her parents.
ReplyDeleteMy mom then went back to Ecuador after three months to go to university and study medicine. She kept asking her parents if she could return to Canada to study English until finally in 1986 she returned to Canada and attended collage to study English on a student visa. After the expiry of the visa she decided she wanted to stay longer, so she formally requested a landed immigrant status.
My grandparents came to Canada from Greece in 1974. They left Greece because there was no work and also to give my mom and my uncle a better education. My grandparents said that my mom would not have many chances because she was a girl living in a small village. Back then boys were seen as better there. They also came here because they were told that if you work hard in Canada you had the chance to buy a house. My grandparents had a choice between Canada and Australia and they chose Canada because my grandfather's brother lived in Toronto and he promised my grandfather that he would help him find work.
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ReplyDeleteDad:My dad came to Canada because there were wars at the time so people where trying to leave. It was very expensive to fly out of the country and my dad didn't have the money to leave. Luckily my dad was sponsored by his uncle. He moved to Canada in 1993 in St.john. In 1997 my dad moved to Toronto because his uncle and aunt was in Toronto and stayed with them for six years. One year after my dad got engaged and 2000 got married to my mom.
ReplyDeleteMom: My mom went to Toronto because she was engaged and wanted to live with my dad and soon got married.
My Moms side of the family came to Canada from Chile in 1974 because there was a dictatorship and they were political refugees and the government wanted to arrest them. My family wanted to have a safe place/home to live.
ReplyDeleteMy Dads side of the family came to Canada because they wanted to get a better job, better life, and a better future for there children
My grandmas side is from Chile, and France.
My grandpas side is from Chile,and Spain.
My mother and her family immigrated from Chile to Toronto in 1974 . The reason way her parents decided to move to Canada was because they felt ,their country was on unsafe and unstable due to political issues. They felt that they wanted to raise their children in a safer country.
ReplyDeleteI am the 6th generation on my moms side and 4th on my dads. My dads ancestors might be horse thief's which might be why they left England. on my moms side it was because of the highland clearances when the English where ridded of their land and kicked off for the English sheep farming.
ReplyDeleteI came to canada because my mom is canadian and my parents got divorced and than we moved her because most of her family is leaving here. Also because I wanted to keep playing hockey and canada has winter and hockey is a winter sport.
ReplyDeleteI am the 2nd generation on my dad's side and the 3rd on my mom's sides. My mom immigrated from Korea to study English in Canada. Then she met my dad and stayed.
ReplyDeleteIn my family my parents and grandparents were born here in Canada. In fact my family has been in Canada for over 13 generations. Way back in the early 1600's my ancestors emigrated from England and the British Isles. They sailed on the Mayflower and went to the New World now known as the United States. During the American Revolution my ancestors decided they wanted to remain loyal to the British Empire. They therefore became what was called United Empire loyalists. They traveled north to what is now Nova Scotia in maritime reagin of Canada. Over the generations they migrated across to western Canada, finally settling in Ontario. The best thing to say about this migration is that today, I have relatives all across Canada.
ReplyDeleteIn my family, my grandparents were both from greese and emigrated to canada. My grandfather moved to Canada because he was captured in a war and couldn't escape. Finally, he escaped and flew to Canada for a safer life and safer lives for there chlidren. My grandmother was in the same situation but instead of being captured, she was living in the war! Her house was actually in the middle of the battle field so she flew to canada.
ReplyDeleteAll this happend in around 1957-1963
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ReplyDeleteMy Mom(Grandma) and Dad(Grandpa) are emigrates. They came to Toronto from Trinidad and Tobago at around the 1970's. They decided to come here because a little while after they got married, my dad's friend moved to Canada. They wanted to go and visit them and when they went, they really liked it there and moved into a house.
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ReplyDeleteDAD: my dad was born in Toronto.His parents came here from Sao Miguel Azores,Portugal in the year 1968.There was very little work in Sao Miguel.My granpa’s brother Joao Martins had been living in Toronto for many years.He was a foreman for CN rail in Toronto.CN rail was been looking for workers. So my grandfather came to toronto to work for CN rail.Once my grandfather decided to stay he brought over my 5 aunts and uncles and my grandmother after moving to toronto 2 more of my aunts were born the last one to be boren was my dad.
MOM: in 1980 my mom grandpa,grandma and her brother (uncle Joe) came from ho chi minh city,Vietnam. her and her family left after the Vietnam war to come to Canada for a better life, because her country was no longer free. My mom’s family first came to Montreal, Quebec where they got help from the Canadian government to find a home, settle in and find work to live a better life, the Canadian government helped them find a house, at the end they found a house in toronto.
Dad side: My dads Great Grandmother was first to move to Canada.
ReplyDeleteMom: My grandfather flee to Khartoum,Sudan seeking shelter and protection (refuge). He moved from Khartoum,Sudan to Paris, France to pursue University.In Paris, your grandfather received shelter and protection ( refuge status) and lived in Paris for a few years, Finally my grandfather moved to Canada to study,live and work
ReplyDeleteMom: My grandmother was forced to flee her family and her home in Eritrea. She escaped the war zone and moved to Khartoum, Sudan for one year. Then she moved to Rome,Italy for shelter and protection.She was not allowed to help in Rome, Italy. She received support from the office of the United Nations high Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR) and was granted refugee status in Canada and moved to Toronto,Ontario to study,live and work
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Dad: my father family had moved to Canada to have a batter life