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S7E3 How Immigration Changed Canadian Figure Skating (and Skates)
https://pier21.ca/blog/steve-schwinghamer/a-reflection-on-curating-perfect-landings Thank you for listening to Countless Journeys. Planning to visit Halifax? Be sure to follow and tag Canadian Museum…
S7E2 How Gode Katembo uses Soccer to Build Community - Gode Katembo and Mandela Kuet
Also, check out the Museum’s Historian blog, Soccer and Belonging: Sport and Adaptation in Canadian Migration: https://pier21.ca/soccer-and-belonging-sport-and-adaptation-canadian-migration Thank you…
S7E1 OuiCanSki: Helping Newcomers Love Winter - Sandy Wolofsky and Joanna Barnowski
See footage of Sandy’s grandparents, immigrants from Ukraine and Poland, skiing on Montreal’s Mont Royal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxutNJYwkGM Thank you for listening to Countless…
S7 Season 7 Trailer
This new season is about how sport helps newcomers find community and the role immigrants have played in shaping Canadian sports. From NHL tough guy Georges Laraque, to Manitoba’s All-Nations Cup…
S6E5 Neo Chinese cuisine - Eva Chin
Born in Hawaii to a Chinese-Singaporean father and a Samoan-Chinese mother, Chin imbues her dishes with history while pushing Canadian Chinese cuisine forward. Her modern interpretations of…
S6E4 Jollof Wars - Christina Adewale and Vanessa Mensah
A WhatsApp chat group for African-born people in the Kingston area got real when someone issued a light-hearted challenge to see who could make the Jollof rice: a Nigerian or a Ghanaian. That…
S6E3 Rainbow Community Garden - Raymond Ngarboui
What started as a longing for the produce from home turned into a large community garden project that feeds hundreds of newcomer families and has revitalized Winnipeg’s Central park. Thank you for…
S6E2 Pastry Revolutions - Kris Alvarez and Grace Firmeza, and Nadège Nourian
Grace Firmeza and Kriselda Alvarez wanted to recreate and sell some of their favorite Filipino dishes. That desire has resulted in a busy urban bakery and café run by the two friends. In addition, we…
S6E1 Indo-Guyanese cooking - Chef Devan Rajkumar
Toronto’s award-winning Chef Devan Rajkumar talks about his influences, the tensions early in his career of being a second-generation Canadian committed to making a living in the world of food, and…
S6 Season 6 Trailer
This season, we serve up stories of how immigration is shaping Canadian cuisine. From a friendly battle over Jollof Rice bragging rights to the surprising tale of Newfoundland Chow Mein, discover…
S5E5 Laughs in translation with Angelo Tsarouchas
Montreal-born Angelo Tsarouchas is known as The Funny Greek. He cut his teeth in the comedy clubs of Ottawa and Toronto before heading to the United States, where he now lives. And his Greek heritage…
S5E4 Community through laughter with New in Town cabaret
There’s nothing like food and friendship to warm up a cold night. On this episode, host Tina Pittaway heads to Antigonish Nova Scotia to drop in on a potluck dinner organized by the cast of New in…
S5E3 A change of plan with Nour Hadidi
When Jordanian-born Nour Hadidi arrived in Canada to study commerce at McGill, a roommate introduced her to the world of stand-up comedy via YouTube. From that moment, Nour knew comedy was something…
S5E2 Comedy for people who are not doing OK with Sandy El Bitar
Sandy El-Bitar knows a thing or two about not doing OK. Her father died on the eve of her family’s immigration from Lebanon, she’s worked in palliative care, and, as a drama therapist, she spends…
S5 Season 5 trailer
Thank you for listening to Countless Journeys. Planning to visit Halifax? Be sure to follow and tag Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 on Facebook or Instagram!
S5E1 Cross-border comedy with Hoodo Hersi
Toronto-born Hoodo Hersi knew the moment she made an elevator full of adults break out in laughter that she wanted to learn more about this thing called comedy. Born to a mother from Djibouti and a…
S4E6 Bonus Episode – The Dumpling Summit
A bonus episode recorded at the Dumpling Summit at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Thank you for listening to Countless Journeys. Planning to visit Halifax? Be sure to follow and…
S4E5 Banu - The Mohyeddins’ Mission
It’s been a tumultuous couple of years inside Iran, with protests over the killing of 22-year-old Masha Amini taking place in dozens of towns and cities around the world. In Toronto, which is home…
S4E4 Exotic Fruit Company - Annette Clarke
Apple and pear trees are common sights along the South Shore of Nova Scotia, but a new nursery just outside Lunenburg is bringing a vast array of new species of fruit trees to the area. Originally…
S4E3 How to Share an Egg - Bonny and Saul Reichert
For many people who are uprooted from their lives in their homeland, the foods of home are often the first things they want to share, and the last connection to home that they hang onto. That’s…
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Countless Journeys has published 41 episodes since May 2020, covering topics in History, Personal Journals.
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