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Truong/Tram family videos : Muny : baby shower : Ngày Đầy Tháng
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Description
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A video clip recording from 1992 consisting of a Khmer-Krom family celebrating a birthday. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "The Truong/Tram family’s home movie footage shot in VHS format on January 25th 1992, captures the 1-month old birthday party of their youngest son in Brantford, ON, shortly after moving from Hull, Quebec. A full and lively gathering, their celebration includes families chatting over a community meal, speeches, gift giving, dancing to 80’s music, and loving footage of a peaceful baby enjoying the party. The Truongs/Trams are of Khmer-Krom ethnicity, translating to 'Khmer of the South'. The Khmer-Krom are an [unrecognised] Indigenous group and ethnic minority in the South of Vietnam. Many Khmer people who inhabited the same refugee camps in Vietnam later immigrated together to Canada. When the Truongs/Trams arrived in Hull, Quebec (now Gatineau, Quebec) in 1989, they were able to regularly connect with a Khmer community at gatherings like these. The Troung/Tram family have since relocated to Toronto ON where they continue to celebrate and take pride in their identity, and attend Khmer language and dance classes. The Khmer Buddhist Temple of Ontario in Hamilton remains central to them and their community. Mother, Trinh Nha Truong, was happy to share her footage with Home Made Visible because she wants to show other Canadians that ‘our people live in Canada too.’"
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Type
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VHS
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Accession / Box
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2018-018 / 001
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Date
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25 January 1992
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Identifier
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2018-020 / 001 (01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1148420
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Title
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Wong family videos : family reunion 70
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Description
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Project and donor contributed description follows:"A clip documenting the Red Packet (hóngbāo) ceremony taking place at Mr Wong’s 70th birthday celebration in 2002. During this ceremony family members were called up in a particular order to accept a red envelope of money from Mr Wong. Deanna Wong, Mr. Wong’s daughter who found and digitized this video, recalls that family members were called up according to age and lineage. For example, Mr. Wong’s siblings would be called first, followed by their children and grandchildren. In this video Mr Wong's eldest son, Terry was called first, and then, since their middle son Ted was not present, Deanna, the youngest of the three, came next. Following her came Terry's kids from eldest to youngest. And since Deanna nor Ted had children at the time, the eldest cousin and his wife, and their kids etc followed. As the eldest of 13 siblings, Mr. Wong would have had many envelopes to hand out! Originally from Hong Kong, Mr. Wong came to Canada to study engineering at McGill University in the mid-1950s, where he met Deanna's mother. Mrs. Wong's father, Deanna maternal grandfather, immigrated to Canada in 1921 and paid the $500 head tax in order to enter the country. Mr Wong's father, Deanna’s paternal grandfather, was a doctor specializing in acupuncture, which was illegal in Canada at the time, so he settled in California. Now his family lives around the world, including the United States, Singapore, Japan and in various places in Canada. This milestone birthday presented a great opportunity for a family reunion. And to accommodate everyone, this celebration took place in the home of Deanna’s eldest brother and Mr. Wong’s eldest son, Terry. Now a longtime resident of Toronto, Deanna calls Winnipeg home where she and her two brothers grew up. Although they were one of the few families of colour around, she remembers her neighbourhood and her experiences fondly. Her parents, particularly her mother, worked hard to build a Chinese community where the children could have Chinese friends and be exposed to their culture. They started a Mandarin school, even though Cantonese was their mother tongue, and began a summer camp. Family and community come together again at this celebration, one of many for the Wong family."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-040/001(01)
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Date
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2002
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Identifier
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2019-040/001(01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152082
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Title
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Jabbar family videos : America/Canada Visit Sep 89 Family Video : part 4 of 4
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Description
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Project and donor contributed description follows: "Sometime between 1987 and 1988, its summertime and the Jabbar family welcomes uncles and aunts and cousins over for a visit to Canada, staying at their apartment in Scarborough ON. Family was always welcome at the Jabbar household and they are happy and willing to stay for weeks at a time despite the small space. As their first visit to Canada, they take them to tourist sites. Pictured here are views of rides at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). S’s father, who is the eldest sibling of their generation, attracted a lot of family to visit because it is customary for people to always visit the eldest. Since S's father was the first of his siblings to come to Canada, everyone was excited to visit. It was also quite an accomplishment for a man with a physical disability to seek an independent life overseas for himself and his family so this was often admired. The footage shows how multigenerational the gatherings are, which included S's grandmother who had recently came to live with the family."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-032 / 001 (04)
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Date
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1989
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Identifier
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2019-032 / 001 (04)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152055
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Title
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Interviews for "Voices from the Odeyak"
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Description
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Item is an audio recording of one of a series of interviews done as research for Michael Posluns' book "Voices of the Odeyak". This is a preparatory interview with Marie Symes-Grehan, the Great Whale Hydro task force assistant from the Cree Village of Whapmagoostui, who acted as a coordinator during the voyage. The audio picks up mid-interview as Marie is discusses how she ended up going to Great Whale for community development to coordinate a task force. She then talks about her experience meeting Robbie Dick, who tells her about the project; her impressions of James' Bay; her first task force meeting; first coming up with the idea of building a canoe; and [Dani?] coming up. She then goes into detai about the meeting with the Inuit Council and Cree Council, describing Inuit/Cree historical integration changing to segregation and splitting the community, how the James' Bay Agreement split the Inuit and Cree communities, making them split land and starting land arguments. Marie then goes through a timeline of organizing the voyage, notes the equal numbers of woman, talks of making contact with the Sierra Club, problems with political groups, feelings of the chiefs about the project, her feelings during the experience, problems that arose during the voyage, monetary issues, unexpected help from regular community members along the voyage making up for the lack of help expected from official sources, and a time frame of launching boat from Ottawa.
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Type
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sound recording
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Fonds
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Michael Posluns fonds (F0382)
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Accession / Box
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2000-050 / 005 (10)
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Date
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1992-03-04
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:72506
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Title
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Interviews for "Voices from the Odeyak"
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Description
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Item is an audio recording of one of a series of interviews done as research for Michael Posluns' book "Voices of the Odeyak". This is a preparatory interview with Marie Symes-Grehan, the Great Whale Hydro task force assistant from the Cree Village of Whapmagoostui, who acted as a coordinator during the voyage. The conversation starts with them relating news about mutual acquaintances, including comments on Alcoholics Anonymous programs aimed at Indigenous people and an incident with a helicopter that was reported on in the news. Michael Posluns then relates the basis of "Voices of the Odeyak" and what work he's done on it so far. He talks about the campaign to save the Great Whale River, negative press about the Cree circulated by Hydro Québec, and they discuss the the contributions of Doris Delaney, Ian Goodman, and Anne Stewart. Marie then recounts how she got involved with the grassroots campaign to save the Great Whale River and the Indigenous communities around it and her impressions of a memorable night during the trip of the Odeyak to New York, when participants had a "collective breakdown". They then discuss Mary Hines, a long-time grassroots campaigner for many causes, an Indigenous community at [Walliston Lake?] that has been manipulated by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, and politics about chiefs and the ensuing problems. The audio drops at 00:32:30, then picks up again speaking about a female reporter and the manipulation of the media by Hydro Québec during the voyage.
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Type
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sound recording
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Fonds
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Michael Posluns fonds (F0382)
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Accession / Box
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2000-050 / 005 (10)
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Date
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1992-03-03
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Identifier
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ASC33172
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:72505
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Title
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Interviews for "Voices from the Odeyak"
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Description
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Recording consists of a series of interviews with First Nations and Inuit members of the community, some through interpreters. Tapes is annotated "Paul Asee, [Justice Paul Rouleau?], Mary Mickeyook, Thomassee Napartuk." Justice Paul Rouleau may be the male voice posing questions and interviewing the speakers. First interview is with an (Inuit?) Elder and hunter with an interpreter. Second interview with woman (Mary Mickeyook?) starts at 17:50 mark.
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Type
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sound recording
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Fonds
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Michael Posluns fonds (F0382)
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Accession / Box
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2000-050 / 004 (21)
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Date
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[between 1990-1992?]
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Identifier
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:328585
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James' Bay II Project New York City Protest Rally
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Description
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This item consists of a recording of speeches protesting James's Bay II, the hydro-electric megaproject between the city of New York and Hydro Quebec, in front of the Canadian consulate in New York. There is an introduction by an woman speaker named Joanna. The first speaker is Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Cree of Quebec, on the environmental problems caused by James' Bay I, the first such agreement. The next speaker is Mark Summer from Greenpeace Action who speaks on the economic drawbacks of the agreement. The third is Lou [Guerowitz?], an attorney working with Aboriginal groups, who speaks on how unnecessary and morally wrong the agreement is and what kind of actions need to be taken to stop the agreement. The next speaker is an unidentified man who says a prayer. Next Joanna co-ordinates the march and gives instructions. The audio cuts off during the speech of an unidentified woman who speaks about God and is planning on doing a chant.
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Type
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sound recording
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Fonds
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Michael Posluns fonds, F0382
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Accession / Box
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2000-050 / 004 (32)
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Date
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1991
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:328504
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Title
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Interviews for "Voices from the Odeyak"
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Description
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Recording consists of an interview with the deputy chief of [Chisasibi?], Sam Tapiatic. Recording starts mid-interview. Some topics covered include environmental projects re-working land, Cree working in co-operation with Environment Canada, working within the budgetary constraints imposed by Ministry of Natural Resources; using fertilizer from commercial fishing; caribou farming; recently finding moose carcasses with unknown cause of death; environmental degradation; dietary needs of Cree population living off food caught in the bush; mercury poisoning causing hunters to fish and hunt elsewhere. Tapiatic also discusses community issues, including: the disastrous environmental impacts of first phase of Le Grand Complex, mercury contamination and resulting social problems, working with Great Whale community environmental task force.
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Type
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sound recording
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Fonds
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Michael Posluns fonds, F0382
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Accession / Box
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2000-050 / 005 (02)
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Date
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[1992?]
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:328500
