Immigrants--British Columbia

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Kunst family fonds

  • PR-2207
  • Fonds
  • 1894-2002; predominantly 1920-1970

The fonds consists of Kunst family records and contain the following: Memoir of Milton Kunst; photographs, both negatives and prints, taken or acquired by Milton Kunst and biographical information about Dr. Johan Jurriaan Kunst and his family.

Kunst (family)

Correspondence regarding immigration

  • GR-4064
  • Series
  • 1903-1905

This series consists of correspondence related to the 1904 British Columbia Immigration Act. The records were created or received by the Provincial Immigration Officer, a position held by the Superintendent of the BC Provincial Police Force for these years. The correspondence is primarily with other government officials such as the Premier, Provincial Secretary and Deputy Immigration Officers, including one who worked in Blaine, Washington. Some correspondence may be from immigrants or other officials such as representatives from the Japanese Consul in BC.

Records relate to a variety of subjects, from financial expenses and statistics to the detention and deportation of those deemed “enemy aliens”. Many records regard Japanese people.

The records are arranged alphabetically by sender or subject. The majority of records are correspondence in, but there are also some copies of correspondence out written by the Superintendent.

British Columbia. Superintendent of Police

Pasquale Capozzi interview

The item is an audio interview with Pasquale Capozzi, recorded in 1964.
T0194:0001 track 1: This interview is the story of how an immigrant went from a railway labourer to being a multi-millionaire. Mr. Pasquale 'Cap' Capozzi was born in Italy on July 13 1889. He discusses his family background; how he attended school in Italy and traveled to New York, and from there to Nelson when he was 18 or 19. He worked as a railway labourer for the CPR. He discusses various jobs he held in the BC interior before he eventually settled in Kelowna, where he established the town's second grocery store.

Track 2: Mr. Capozzi describes the conditions in Kelowna around 1920. He married his wife in 1921. He describes the town of Phoenix and the copper mining boom there. He explains the reasons for the success of his store in Kelowna. After a fire burned down his first store he built another one. He discusses how he got involved in the wine business and how he was greatly assisted in this venture by W.A.C. Bennett. He offers his impressions of Mr. Bennett and various aspects of his own business career.

T0194:0002 track 1: Mr. Capozzi discusses a service station which he bought in the Kelowna area, the hotel/motel business, his philosophy on business, what Canada means to him, how he learned to speak English in Nelson, how being an immigrant was never hard for him, how he loves Kelowna, some famous people whom he has met, his sons and how they decided the grocery business was not for them, his future plans and more on his life's philosophy.

Ernest Lang interview

CALL NUMBER: T0305:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ernest "Ernie" Fredrick Lang talks about the Keithley Creek area, and recalls his experiences as a German immigrant before World War I. An unidentified woman speaks for about three minutes. Then, Lang describes how he came to Canada in 1912, homesteaded and worked in mines. He mined in the area until 1940. He tells a story about going down Fraser River on a scow and finding a dead man in the mountains. He describes the countryside of the Quesnel Highlands and talks about Bob Borland, Jim Adams and the Mile Tunnel. Then he discusses Mrs. Lee who grazed sheep in the hills before an unidentified man and woman speak again for about three more minutes.

TRACK 2: Lang discusses his background and experiences in Germany, coming to North America, hard times and experiences in New York, coming to Canada as an immigrant labourer, working on a farm near Brantford, Ontario, and coming to BC to work on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad. Then he tells a story of a journey through the woods in winter and an elaboration of the story about traveling the Fraser River on a scow.

CALL NUMBER: T0305:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lang describes working on a farm near 153 Mile House, incidents evolving out of the language barrier, working for Louis Corsina at 153 Mile House, stories about being a German in Canada during World War I, activities in the area of South Fort George circa 1915, mining at 20 Mile House, mining at Keithley Creek, gold in the old river channels and more on mining up to 1925.

TRACK 2: Mr. Lang describes early gold mining in the area between 1860 and 1880, Jim Adams and the Mile Tunnel at Snowshoe Creek, Keithley Creek, staking claims in the snow, the Barkerville Road, the effect WWII had on mining and economics, gold fever, encounters with bears, settlement at Likely and Quesnel Forks, an encounter with a cougar and his wife's death.

People in landscape : Journey to Aldermere

SUMMARY: Sarah Bourgon recalls her adventures as a young English immigrant: arriving in Canada in 1912, working in Vancouver and Prince Rupert, and travelling to Aldermere in the Bulkley Valley in 1914.

People in landscape : Ashcroft country

SUMMARY: The program includes the history and description of Cache Creek; the origins of Ashcroft; and brief description of early Ashcroft. The story of the journey of the Clippendale family from England to Ashcroft. Impressions of Ashcroft in 1910; attitudes toward English immigrants; growing up on a ranch near Ashcroft. The voices heard includes: Dorothy Goldrick, Nellie Baker, Mary Baker, and Vince Gresty.

Between ourselves : The Germans in B.C., part 2

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode is a documentary consisting of interviews with Germans who immigrated to B.C. They speak about their lives and experience;s. This is part two of two.;

Between ourselves : The Germans in B.C., part 1

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode is a documentary consisting of interviews with Germans who immigrated to B.C. They speak about their lives and experience;s. This is part one of two.;

The Italians

SUMMARY: "The Changing Society" was a CBC radio series about immigration to Canada, and how immigrants change the demographics of Canadian culture. Each program in the series featured interviews with individua;ls of a specific ethnicity. This episode consists of interviews and sounds about Italians who have immigrated to Vancouver. Interviewees speak about their heritage and experiences, and their lives as ;Italians who live in Vancouver.;

Bavarian folk music

SUMMARY: "The Changing Society" was a CBC radio series about immigration to Canada, and how immigrants change the demographics of Canadian culture. Each program in the series featured interviews with individua;ls of a specific ethnicity. This episode consists of Bavarian folk music recorded in Germany by Jurgen Hesse.;

Immigrants : transcripts of interviews

The series consists of transcript copies of short interviews with immigrants, who discuss their experiences and what Canada means to them. The interviews were held in Victoria, Vancouver & 100 Mile House (B.C.); Halifax, Wolfville, Canning, Tangier, & Cape Breton Island (N.S.); Charlottetown (P.E.I.); Fredericton (N.B.); Montreal (Que.); Ottawa, Toronto, Sault St, Marie & Thunder Bay (Ont.); Winnipeg (Man.); and Calgary & Red Deer (Alta.). The interviewees are: Alek de March (Poland), journalist; Naemi Riberio (Portugal), janitor; Hubert Beyer (Germany), journalist; Flemming Jorgenson (Denmark), painter; Maria Bergink (Netherlands), housewife; Herman Bergink (Netherlands), insurance adjuster and carilloneur; Darshan (India), taxi driver; Dolores Tepper (Mexico); Pentti Nisula (Finland), mechanic; Joel Slimani (Algeria), waiter; Hans Neumann (Germany), chef; Dennis Alves (Jamaica), waiter; Jean Choi (Korea), waitress; Helmut Wiegert (Germany), hotel-motel manager; Dr. Aftab ;Mufti (Pakistan), university head of computer sciences; Vincent Leung (Hong Kong), mathematics instructor; Siegfried Delsu (Belgium), computer sciences; Felecita Kaleja (Latvia), piano instructor; Jurgen Peill (Germany), farmer; Mr. Pardoe (Wales), retired headmaster; Bastiaantje Speelman (Netherlands), animator-guide-supervisor; Willy Krauch (Denmark), fish smoker; Joseph Bartosek (Czechoslovakia;), delicatessen owner; Jose Castineiras (Cuba), maitre d'hotel; Julijanna Strudwick (Yugoslavia), waitress; Josephine Wicha (Czechoslovakia), restaurant hostess; Tasso Saltaris (Greece), manager; Tadas Januskevicius, known as Ted Janus (Lithuania); Werner Russold (Austria), wardrobe supervisor; Sleiman Wakim (Lebanon), restaurant owner; George Dow (a Palestinian Arab); Magnus and Heidi Ochsner (Switzerland), farmers; Christiane Martin (Germany), cashier; Anar Somani (Tanzania), bank clerk; Yu Kam Chung (Hong Kong), cosmetician;
Lucimar Volpeon (Brazil), translator; Gerardo Mosquerea (Colombia); Carlos Davila Vasquez (Equador); Doris Pegoud (Germany), assistant at ;CBC Radio International; Dorette Schaefer (Germany); Tomas Schuman (Russia); John Mezei (Hungary); Alfred Zbik (Poland), section head at CBC Radio International; Kristina Sandler (Sweden); Lars Ohman ;(Sweden), aeronautical engineer; Ted Petkoff (Macedonia), grocery store owner; "M.W." (Hungary), potter and housewife; [no name] (Germany), stockbroker; [no name] (Germany), builder; Peter C. Newman (Czechoslovakia), editor of Macleans Magazine; Umberto Manca (Italy), broadcaster; Nuzhat Amin (Pakistan), journalist; Joseph Palumbo (Italy); Effie Altonas (Greece), secretary; "Anonymous" (Serbian, Yugoslavia), environmental control officer; Teppe O. Moilala (Finland), drafting and design supervisor; Harry Bansal (India), metallurgist; Helmut Brandstetter (Austria), designer; Mario Gini (Italy), ;building supervisor; Primo Fabio (Italy), superintendent; Giovanna Zovatto (Italy), housewife; Reino Erkkila (Finland); Eva Liigvald (Finland); Maino Mannila (Finland); Mario Silva (Portugal), storekeeper; "Anonymous" (Czechoslovakia), pediatrician; Erik Lindhardt (Denmark), merchandising; Serge Radchuk (Ukraine), lawyer; Hans Gust (Germany), businessman; Halyna Kowal (Ukraine), receptionist; Agust Aguston (Iceland), student; Roman Ivan Kowal (Ukraine), painter-sculptor; Vera Pintyi (Hungary), cleaner; Dr. V.P. Madan (India), mathematics instructor; Frantisek Fiala (Czechoslovakia), mathematics instructor; Meena Vadgama (Kenya), education co-ordinator; Lascelles Black (Jamaica), fine arts student; Max von Hartmann (Germany), hotelier; Ole Pii; (Denmark), pastry cook and artist-craftsman; Irene Hegi (Switzerland), dental assistant; Dr. Helmut Ruebsaat (Germany), G.P. and folk singer; Rudi Diesvelt (Netherlands), leather worker; Ruth Idso (Norway), clerk; Alex Waissbluth (Chile), jeweller; John Giannis Contogiannis (Greece), head waiter; Masaharu Takaya (Japan), floral designer; and Sheila Munieza (Philippines), nurse.
The transcripts range in length from 1 or 2 pages to 15 pages

The Greeks

SUMMARY: "The Changing Society" was a CBC radio series about immigration to Canada, and how immigrants change the demographics of Canadian culture. Each program in the series featured interviews with individua;ls of a specific ethnicity. This episode consists of interviews and sounds about Greeks who have immigrated to Vancouver. Interviewees speak about their heritage and their experiences, and their live;s as Greeks who live in Vancouver.;

German immigrants to B.C.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: A variety of German immigrants to Canada and BC comment on their reasons for coming to Canada; their first experiences on arriving; how they feel about Canada; attitudes of different German immigrants; the German contribution to Canadian life; their adaptation to Canadian life and links to Germany; Germans as good citizens and successful Canadians.;

Ethnic communities in Vancouver, [1976-09-06?]

SUMMARY: "Identities" was a CBC radio series that used interviews to examine various ethnic communities and their attitudes towards Canadian life. This episode consists of interviews and sounds about a variety; of subjects, including: a Chilean person in Vancouver who has completed an extensive survey on the social and economic needs of the city's Spanish-speaking community; the search for freedom as a reas;on for immigration; an inside look at the civil war in Lebanon; multicultural policy; and why it is fashionable to form ethnic stereotypes.;

Harry Con interview

CALL NUMBER: T2799:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1922-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-09-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Con discusses background: born 1922 in Canada; went to China as a boy; returned to Vancouver in 1934 and went to Strathcona School where he learned English; mother was Canadian-born; father immigrated at age 15, worked on railroad, then in sawmills; father Chinese foreman at Capilano Timber (Hastings Park area); conditions of work for father. Con served in WW II; after discharge in 1945, he worked for "Chinese Times", then as principal of Chinese Community School (run by Chinese Freemasons); father a Freemason, as is Harry; relates functions of organization pre and post WW II. Discusses: sending bones back to China; Chinese emigration; discrimination; integration; history of Freemasons as a political organization supporting Sun Yat-sen. Begins narration of urban renewal crisis in Strathcona during '60s; formation of Chinese Property Owners Association under wing of Chinese Benevolent Association (CBA). TRACK 2: Urban renewal crisis (cont'd). Phase I and II of urban renewal. Organization meeting for SPOTA in late '68 where he was elected co-chairman. Discusses his candidacy for School Board in 1968, and political tactics of Chinese Community and of SPOTA. SPOTA's legitimacy as spokesman for Chinese community, 4th level of government on Strathcona Rehabilitation Committee (SRC). Other workers in SPOTA and his resignation. Issue of narrowing roads led to his resignation. Sien Lok Conference in Calgary, Robert Andras & brother Ron Con. Ron's work in Toronto. Freeway and Columbia Connector debates: part played by CBA and by SPOTA and CCC (Chinese Cultural Centre); Reasons for SPOTA's success.

CALL NUMBER: T2799:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-09-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Con discusses: his return to Canada in 1934 and practice of detaining immigrants in Immigration Building; living conditions in 1920s for Chinese in Chinatown; father's work as labour contractor at Capilano Timber; Chinese Empire Reform Association vs. Dr. Sun; split between Freemasons and Nationalists after Republic established; Freemasons no longer a political organization. Wong Foon Sien: head of CBA and head of Hoysun Ningyung Districts Association; spokesman for Chinatown. Discusses: the threat to close Chinese school in 1930s; learning to speak English; retaining Chinese culture; strong family system of traditional culture. TRACK 2: Discusses World War II: joining up to press for full citizenship rights; service in Southeast Asia in Secret Service (British). 1963-64 revitalization of Chinatown: protest over Quebec connector; money of new Hong Kong immigrants; Chinese Cultural Centre; Chinatown Historical Planning Committee. (End of interview);

Elisa Negrin interview

CALL NUMBER: T2715:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Elisa Negrin discusses: her parents' Italian background; parents' first jobs in Vancouver; garden and animals on Atlantic Street; looking after cows; manure used in medicine and other folk remedies; butchering at home; fodder for cows; barn at Atlantic Street house. TRACK 2: Mutual help in the neighbourhood. Police in the neighbourhood during the Depression. Transients in the Depression.; Relations of girls with neighbourhood boys and transients. Chores and schools. Helping with midwifery in the neighbourhood.;

CALL NUMBER: T2715:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: work and her attitude during her teens in the Depression; school life -- activities, ethnic groups; mutual help in the neighbourhood and attitudes of ethnic groups toward each other and neighbourhood problems; languages spoken in the neighbourhood; trees and sidewalks and proposed changes in the neighbourhood. TRACK 2: Taking in borders in the Depression. Credit from stores. Attitudes toward teachers. Prevalence of TB in the war years. Other diseases: diphtheria, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever. (End of interview);

Eric Garman interview : [Nicholson, 1977]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Eric Garman : A life in forestry PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-03-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background and early life in England. Family immigrates to Canada, 1911; voyage by boat and train to Vancouver. Job as office boy for importer (Martin & Robertson Ltd.), W.H. Malkin grocery firm, and A. Macdonald & Co., another grocery firm. Service in World War I. Additional education after the war -- UBC. Decision to become a forester. Work for Bloedel, Stewart and Welch. Forestry training in Oregon. Scholarship to Yale University. TRACK 2: Graduation from Yale, 1928, with M.A. in forestry. Marriage, 1935, and children. Forestry jobs: C.D. Orchard; Nass River, 1922; Douglas fir survey; Cowichan Lake forest experimental station; spruce question; jobs after retirement. Awards. Thetis Park Nature Sanctuary. Choirs.

Angelo Branca interview : [Itter & Marlatt, 1977]

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1896-1920 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Angelo Branca discusses background and childhood: father in gold rush, 1896; father's import business; learning of his background through oral history, 1911, as father returns to Italy briefly; deliveries as child for grocery store; mucky sidewalks at Hastings and Main; games as a child; teachers at school; discipline in the home and at school; sense of humour of teachers; change of his ;vocation to law on father's advice; singing at Italian dinners; sister as a singer. TRACK 2: Discusses: physical work and chores; Italian picnics; lack of existing documentation of Italians in Vancouver; immigrants coming being those who needed new opportunity; Mr. Branca's father's reason for immigrating; story-telling amongst his father's friends; San Carlo opera company coming to Vancouver; the Avenue Theatre; Charles E. Royal players at Empress Theatre; early movie theatres; seeing opera recently in Verona; Italy; Italian banquets in Vancouver; his sister as a talented singer.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1977 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Powell St. grounds; Burnaby farm; family; schooling; early success in law profession; assimilation of Italians into Canada; Fathers at Sacred Heart school; description of church interiors at Easter and Christmas; father's import business; speech making; Italian language. TRACK 2: Discusses: philosophical sayings and proverbs in Italian, and the poetry of learning them; discipline in the home; notes changes in parental guidance since WW II; brief history of union of the provinces of Italy; Strathcona residents from Veneto and Udine area; small community problems; community ;pride and jealousy; retention of ethnic customs.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: manual labour by first minority groups; discrimination problems; Janet Smith case of 1924; False Creek prior to WW I; maps of area viewed; location of family's home in area; street; cars, hotels and theatres; first Woodward store; Crosetti, Branca and Tosi stores on Main Street; stores at corner of Union and Princess Street; area of Water St., 70 years ago; Europe Hotel; Angelo Calori. TRACK 2: Discusses: sewage outlet at foot of Raymur St.; reclamation of False Creek park; builder of Union Street homes in 1900s; Hogan's Alley; distribution of brothels in area; police control and toleration of them; lack of crime in area; rum running; bootlegging.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Branca discusses: lawyers in '20s and '30s who influenced him; his first car, a Russell-Knight (?); early driving conditions in Vancouver; learning to box from George Paris; boxing in general; his father's business partner, John Crosetti; Branca's father as a colourful character. (End of interview)

Paddy Acland's progress : the adventures of a young Englishman in the Okanagan Valley

The item is an audio recording produced for the Provincial Archives' Sound Heritage Series under contract. The speaker is H.V. "Paddy" Acland, one of the many young Englishmen who came to settle in the Okanagan Valley in the first decade of the 20th century. He and his compatriots saw in the Okanagan a reflection of their own youth, vitality and optimism. This sound program was based on an 1964 interview with Mr. Acland, recorded by Imbert Orchard of the CBC.

Oswald Kofler interview

CALL NUMBER: T3880:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life of the Austrian immigrant Oswald Kofler RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1983-03
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Austrian background; Alps, Carinthia; trains; tourists; tourists in the 1930s; life of the population; description of village; father was a wagon maker; Emperor Franz Joseph; Tauern Railway between Carinthia and Salzburg; schooling for seven years; children had to learn to work early, starting at the age of ten during the summer vacation, September and October; left home in 1914; sleeping in the barn; eating in the kitchen and doing homework on that table; life of the Kofler family; mother sick; girls hired out; three sisters; life after finishing school; Russian prisoners of war; to; another farmer after WWI; then construction work; Sundays off; sheepherder in the Alps; lumber work in the winter; herding cows the second summer; training for mountains in BC; job in hotel in Baadgastein (silver polisher); guests from all over the world; hotel job only seasonal; could have made a career of hotel work in Austria; discovery of Canada; advertising of Red Star Line in Austria for farm workers; trip from Cherbourg to Quebec City. TRACK 2: Reaction of village; Red Star Line's admission procedures; financing $200 for trip; seven shillings for a dollar; transportation to Canada; Quebec City; eating and sleeping on the train; Winnipeg; Edmonton; first job at Stony Plain; second job at Preisecker, southeast of Calgary; to Barriere BC to cut railroad ties; people in BC; like a village in the Austrian Alps; buying land; building a log house in 1932; car in 1937; animals; exemption from war service because of the farm; wartime, enemy alien; breakdown; shingle mill; asthma; selling everything; origin of asthma was cedar poisoning; English language; Eaton's catalogue; German newspaper, 'Canada Kurier"; new life in Vancouver, starting with an Austrian friend; sacking potatoes; sciatica.;
ALL NUMBER: T3880:0008 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1983-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The need for lighter work; night clerk in Prince Rupert; in 1951, was a cook on a fish packing boat; night watchman in a pulp mill; larger fish packer; Queen Charlotte Islands; sunk by a large freighter; everyone rescued; decision to visit Austria; trip there; relatives and friends; stories exchanged; German language; European countries after WWII; Netherlands and Austria compared; back in Prince Rupert; further contact with relatives through letters; new job with the Canadian Coast Guard; chief steward until 1959; steward on "Camsell", a Coast Guard icebreaker; view from the ship; mirages, etc.

Kathryn [pseudonym] interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1985-08-26 SUMMARY: Came from the south of France in 1982; was a student, her husband is Canadian; talks about marriage and leaving France; how her lifestyle changed upon moving to Canada; social strata more strict in France, more open here; making friends, finding a job; speaking English; support from the Multicultural Association and the Francophone Society; social events, comparison here and France; father's attitudes about education and work for a woman; job at Gibson's, English improved; return to school here; attempts to find work teaching; wants to feel independent; how philosophy has changed, grown; learning English; work on cable TV program; able to approach MLAs; what she misses, going back; differences in childrearing, education; respect; male/female roles here and in France; view of women in France and Canada; how she has changed here; women's movement in France; feeling both Canadian and French; teaching/sharing her language and culture; being part of French groups here; making good friends here is difficult; friend's experiences have been different; suggestions for integrating into Canadian culture; taking courses; classes at different places; clubs and associations; English-speaking people need to be more aware; possibility of exchanging [ideas?] between immigrant and Canadian women; difficulty in going to university here.

Myrna [pseudonym] interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1985-08-30 SUMMARY: Came from Hong Kong in 1984; was working in a bank and a school as a secretary; meeting husband; marriage; immigration to Canada; feelings about coming to Canada; speaking English, learning English; c;lasses concentrate on grammar, not conversation; changes in life upon coming here; difficulty in finding work because she can't speak English; what she does with her time; shopping; friends; the Inter;cultural Association; feelings about living in Canada; financial situation; life in Canada and Hong Kong; language problems; becoming more Canadian; Chinese and Canadian customs; life in Hong Kong.;

Faye [pseudonym] interview

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1985-08-21 SUMMARY: Came from the Western Ukraine in the Soviet Union in 1979 with her husband; difficulties in coming, language problems; graduated and taught French there; husband got language classes; she took ESL; getting permission to immigrate; finding work here; living conditions here and in Russia; people; easier for her daughter; apartments and medical care in Russia; getting clothes and furniture from the government; family left in Russia; spare time; working here; freedom here; Russian communities here; initial politeness from Canadian; two cultures; speaking Russian at home; adjustment from women immigrants; women having a double load, housework and job; keeping old values; childrearing here and Russia; school system there; going to university in Russia; childrearing there; small ethnic communities; some examples of her Russian clients' problems for professional women coming here; freedom of life here; counseling and work as Mosaic; advice to new immigrants; finding jobs here; support from immigration; getting experience; giving up her profession; women from different cultures have different problems; Mosaic very important help.

Norma [pseudonym] interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1985-08-30 SUMMARY: What the Intercultural Association is, what they do; programs they have; ways they reach groups of immigrants; agencies that refer immigrants; staff; funding and staffing problems; getting worse since; 1983; 50% is through own fundraising; numbers of people served in community; learning what Canadian life is like; survival English classes; social orientation; priority needs of immigrants; employmen;t needs and goal setting; suggestions for SWAG to interact with ICA and/or immigrant women.;

Carol [pseudonym] interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1985-08-19 SUMMARY: Talks about her escape from Vietnam on a boat in 1980; talks about camp in Malaysia and being allowed to come to Canada; arrival in Montreal, then Victoria; help from different Canadian people; what life was like in Vietnam before they left; getting a job when she first came; learning English; children speak English; she has two jobs, her husband can't find work; learning to get around in Victoria;, shop, pay bills, etc. Intercultural Association, Catholic-Vietnamese church; festivals; raising children; taking the best from two cultures; some differences in raising child in Vietnam and Canada; learning English is the most important thing, then getting a job; working is very important and makes her happy; doesn't want money from the government.

Dana [pseudonym] interview

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1985-08-21 SUMMARY: Came from China [big city near Hong Kong] in December 1980; was an accountant in China; why she came - her children were here; difficulty in coming to Canada; what she knew about Canada; differences here; language barrier; how she felt on coming here; family problems; language problems; job problems; dependency; had a job, but her son wanted her to quit; sons supporting parent; older women working; different living conditions here and in China; economic conditions, jobs, etc. in China; how she spends her time here; English lessons, learning English; she is active, independent; feeling of inferiority about language difference; Chinese/Canadian culture; wants more programs to integrate better; harder for older people.

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