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- Title
- Being Free:
- Contributor(s)
- Kateb, Masa (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- moving image
- Date Created
- 2018-11-09
- Language
- English
- Description
- Masa shares her experience of coming to Canada and finding freedom.
- Extent
- 00:01:14
- Subject(s)
- Freedom, Gratitude, Immigrants - Experience, Refugees, Syrian Canadians
- Time Period
- 2010s
- Collection
- What Changes You?
- Title
- Coming to Canada - Interview with Tieu Tu-Johnson:
- Contributor(s)
- Tu-Johnson, Tieu (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-06-11
- Language
- English
- Description
- Tieu Tu-Johnson escaped from Vietnam in the 1970s and settled in Canada.
- Extent
- 00:02:30
- Subject(s)
- Refugees, Immigrants - Experience, Vietnamese Canadians
- Location(s)
- Grandview-Woodland
- Time Period
- 1970s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- From Syria to Canada
- Contributor(s)
- Alodat, Hiba (Journalism Crew), Martel, Beck (Journalism Crew), Michaels, Kyra (Journalism Crew), Yu, Chloe (Journalism Crew), Yu, Mylo (Journalism Crew), House, Tina (Facilitator), Stewart, Karl (VPL Staff), Chan, Aaron (VPL Staff), Petro, Ingrid (VPL Staff)
- Type of Resource
- moving image
- Date Created
- 2019-07-24
- Language
- English
- Description
- A young artist tells the story of her journey coming to Canada as a refugee with her family.
- Extent
- 00:07:21
- Subject(s)
- Artists, Citizen Journalism, Drawing, Family, Family, Portraits, Mother and child, Muslims, Refugee Camps, Refugees, Syria, Syrian War, Teenage girls, Teenagers, War
- Time Period
- 2010s
- Collection
- Capturing Vancouver
- Title
- I Volunteered as a Settlement Mentor:
- Contributor(s)
- Brouwer, Peter (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- moving image
- Date Created
- 2019-01-18
- Language
- English
- Description
- Peter talks about how volunteering with and witnessing the struggles of refugee families in Canada has given him an appreciation of his own refugee parents and the struggles they faced.
- Extent
- 00:01:14
- Subject(s)
- Volunteers, Immigrants - Experience, Refugees, Syrian Canadians
- Time Period
- 2010s
- Collection
- What Changes You?
- Title
- Immigrating to Vancouver from Croatia - Interview with Lolita Sartorello:
- Contributor(s)
- Sartorello, Lolita (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-05-06
- Language
- English
- Description
- Lolita Sartorello tells how she arrived in Vancouver from her home in Croatia. She had been slated to be sent to any number of cities as a refugee. She recalls how lucky she felt when she was sent to Vancouver. She moved to the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood.
- Extent
- 00:02:32
- Subject(s)
- World War, 1939-1945, Immigrants - Experience, Refugees
- Location(s)
- Hastings-Sunrise
- Time Period
- 1940s, 1950s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- A Mennonite in Vancouver - Interview with Susan Faehndrich-Findlay:
- Contributor(s)
- Faehndrich-Findlay, Susan (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-02-20
- Language
- English
- Description
- Susan Faehndrich-Findlay's knowledge of German helped her bond with a Mennonite Neighbour. The South Hill area was once heavily populated with Mennonites who had fled persecution around the world. Part of the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
- Extent
- 00:02:16
- Subject(s)
- Immigrants - Experience, Refugees, German Canadians, Mennonites
- Location(s)
- Sunset
- Time Period
- 1940s, 1990s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- Sikh men and boy onboard the Komagata Maru
- Contributor(s)
- Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Date Created
- 23-05-1914-23-07-1914
- Description
- Komagata Maru incident. Gurdit Singh wearing light colored suit, white beard, left foreground.
- Subject(s)
- Ethnic groups, East Indian Canadians, Sikhs, Refugees, Komagata Maru Incident, 1914, Emigration and immigration, Ships, Portraits, Komagata Maru (Ship), Singh, Gurdit, 1860-1954
- Time Period
- 1910s
- Collection
- Leonard Frank Collection
- Title
- Welcome to Vancouver - Interview with Rana Ashour:
- Contributor(s)
- Ashour, Rana (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-06-19
- Language
- English
- Description
- Rana talks about Vancouver's diverse and welcoming culture and volunteering with a group that helps Syrian refugee women.
- Extent
- 00:02:57
- Subject(s)
- Volunteers, Immigrants - Experience, Refugees, Syrian Canadians, Multiculturalism
- Location(s)
- Kitsilano
- Time Period
- 2010s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- Working Life - Interview with Tieu Tu-Johnson:
- Contributor(s)
- Tu-Johnson, Tieu (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-06-11
- Language
- English
- Description
- Tieu Tu-Johnson shares his experience finding work after he escaped from Vietnam in the 1970s.
- Extent
- 00:02:05
- Subject(s)
- Vietnamese Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Refugees
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1970s
- Collection
- Story City