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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