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Immigration to CanadaAssignment A: find someone who has immigrated to Canada in the last decade. Ask them the following questions and write their answers on a separate piece of paper. Then write a ? page paragraph summarizing your views on what it is like to be an immigrant. Write your paragraph in the form of a news report (explaining the facts in a formal manner). You will be evaluated on the quality of your paragraph response.*Please be considerate of their feelings and their privacy. Be sure they are comfortable answering the questions.*If you are an immigrant, interview your parents and then write the paragraph on what their experience was like – you can also include your own views but the focus should be on the individuals who had to .Where did you emigrate from? EnglandWhy did you decide to immigrate to Canada? Because there were better job opportunities hereDid you immigrate as an independent, family class, or refugee? Independent classHow long did it take you to move to Canada once you decided to immigrate? About a yearWhat difficulties did you find once you settled in Canada? Missing family, deciding where to settleWhat events/things made you happy you moved to Canada? Had a great job and made great friends that were British expats (along with other Canadians)Would you encourage other family and friends to move to Canada? Why or why not? Yes because we have been here for many years and have been very happyWhen the Williams’ family decided to move to Canada, it was for economic reasons. They came to the country for a visit and fell in love with the beautiful scenery. When Ted realized back in England that there wouldn’t be any good job promotions in the future, he and his wife, Brenda, decided to make the move to Canada. They found the immigration process fairly easy, but they agree that this may be because they were from England, which was a preferred country for Immigration Canada. Within a year they were able to move to Canada with their two sons, meeting up with cousins who were already here. And the next year Brenda’s mom followed. But they still felt very far away from their home and family. Whenever they went back to visit family, it meant a very long, expensive plane ride (and Brenda hates to fly). However, they were able to meet other people from England living here in Canada, and that helped them to feel closer to home. At first the Williams settled in Victoria, then moved to Calgary, and finally ended up in Grande Prairie. When asked if they would move back to England, they said that they did not want to because this is now their home. They would encourage anyone who wanted to move to Canada to take the leap and follow them. While they know that many immigrants can find it difficult to get through all of the paperwork and regulations, it is worth it. In fact, Ted just recently became a Canadian citizen.Assignment B: find out what your family’s immigration story is. Answer the following questions by talking to family members like a grandparent. You may have several different countries and stories to choose from, but focus on one family story.Then write a ? page paragraph describing your family’s story. Try to write in a storytelling format (less formal and more personal). You will be evaluated on the quality of your paragraph response.What family member’s story did you decide to cover? My great-grandfatherIt might be a good idea to include a family tree to explain your relationship to that relative (do some genealogy). 68580059055Where did they emigrate from? ItalyWhy did they decide to leave their country? Just grandpa left because he couldn’t find workWhy did they decide to come to Canada? The opportunity to make money in the gold mines and then buy a house back home in ItalyWhere did they settle in Canada? OntarioAre there any stories of their settlement that have been passed down through the generations? Great-grandpa became a manager in the mine, so when the government of Canada started rounding up Italians to live in internment camps during World War Two, the owner of the mine fought for my great-grandpa to stay in the mine as an essential service. So great-grandpa was able to avoid the internment camps.Another story is that the aunt that my great-grandmother was living with was supposed to take care of all the money great-grandpa was sending home for his family. After a couple years it was discovered that the aunt was stealing all of the money, so great-grandpa had to send for his family and bring them to Canada. This is why I am in Canada today, because the original plan was for great-grandpa to only be here for a few years and then return to Italy (not sure if I am happy with that, since Italy is pretty awesome, but then again I wouldn’t really exist since the other side of the family had been in Canada for generations before this.Did any family members move back to the mother country? Do you go back to the mother country for a visit? None of my family ever moved back to Italy, and only one family has gone back for a visit.Almost a century ago, a family made a big decision; the father would be moving across the ocean to make money for a better life. The lovely couple had always dreamed of having their own home, but it was too expensive for young family of five living in Italy. So Elena waved goodbye to “Joe”, as she called Giosue. Joe sailed for many days before landing in Montreal Canada in search of work. He ended up in Northern Ontario working in a gold mine. He was a very hard worker that could be trusted – this is because all he could think about was his family back home in Italy and he wanted to be sure to keep his job; he knew that the mine owners could always find another immigrant to take his job. Every payday Joe arranged to send the money back home to his aunt, who was taking care of Joe’s family and had promised to help manage the money to save for a down payment on the house. After a few years, Joe figured he had saved enough money and wrote to his aunt to find out how much had been saved. He was so surprised to get a letter back from Elena, telling him that the money was all gone. He was so sad and reluctantly sent Elena the money to buy tickets for the family to come to Canada. Elena was very brave, taking care of three small children as she left the only land she had known and crossed the Atlantic to a foreign land.Many years later, World War Two broke out, and the government of Italy sent a notice to Joe that he needed to come home to Italy and fight for the mother country. Joe refused, because he knew that Canada was his home now. Then the Canadian government came to the mining town to round up “enemy aliens” – anyone who was from the countries that Canada was at war with. When the government asked about Joe, the mine owner explained to the government that he was an important manager of the mine, so the government allowed Joe to stay at work instead of being put in the Italian internment camp.When Joe retired, he and Elena moved to Toronto where they could live in a community of Italians. He felt so comfortable in this neighborhood because his neighbors understood what it was like to love Canada, but also love Italy. Elena really loved the fact that so many of the stores and businesses spoke Italian, as she had always struggled with English. They planted beautiful, award-winning gardens, and in the summer evenings they would sit in their back garden; as they drank the wine they made each fall, they realized what a blessing it was that they had moved to Canada. ................
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