Our second season of Countless Journeys shares the stories of how immigrants from a wide background of countries and cultures contribute to this country daily. By creating families, businesses and communities, immigrants have had a profound and lasting impact on Canadian life. We hear from them in their own words, through original interviews as well as oral histories, as they share with us both the obstacles and the fun they experience on their way to building lives that would create opportunities, jobs, and understanding for countless others along the way. People like broadcasting visionary Moses Znaimer, groundbreaking playwright Trey Anthony, community activist and organizer Marcie Ponte and the CFL’s all-time most winningest coach Wally Buono. Hear their stories coming up in Season 2.
Season two of Countless Journeys shares the stories of how immigrants have helped shape Canada as we know it today. People like community activist Marcie Ponte.
Marcie Ponte "... at that time it was Portuguese women coming to Canada like my mother, to join their husbands. We were coming here to build a better life, but also to help build Canada.."
Through the steady and challenging work of creating families, businesses and communities, immigrants have had a profound and lasting impact on Canadian life.
Through their own words, in original interviews and oral histories, they share with us both the obstacles - as well as the fun - they experienced on their way to building lives that would create opportunities, jobs, and understanding for countless others along the way.
People like broadcasting visionary Moses Znaimer -
Moses Znaimer "..." this one fellow, took me out for lunch, and basically said, “What’s all this striving?” And, “Just mind your Ps and Qs, you’re doing well, and in five or ten years, you can have my job.” And I remember thinking, Imagine that, I can have his job in only five or ten years. And I quit the next day."
groundbreaking playwright Trey Anthony -
Trey Anthony "... I was 12 turning 13. And I think that age is difficult for anybody, much less being a child who's coming to assimilate into a new country, meeting a woman who is supposed to be her mother. So it was a lot. And yet nobody really acknowledged how much change was going on in my life."
and athlete and coach Wally Buono -
Wally Buono"... you know, we live in a country where your beginning has really not much to do with your end. And what you do in between is up to you."
I’m Tina Pittaway. Join me and host Paolo Pietropaolo to hear their stories in Season 2 of Countless Journeys from the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Available on Apple Podcasts.