Media for Austrian, Germans, Swiss in Canada
Vancouver, October 2, 2023 – October is “German Heritage Month” all across Canada. The Honourable Liberal MP Kamal Khera is the Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities from Brampton West, Ontario. Here is a statement from Minister Kamal Khera: Today, we are celebrating the beginning of German Heritage Month, which gives us the
This is Part II to the story of the 30-Year Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What has happened and what will happen in Vancouver. Most events I know about started on Saturday, November 9th, 2019, which is the exact day that the Berlin Wall opened to the public back in 1989. The
In Berlin, they celebrated with a 7-day City-Wide Festival from November 4th to November 10th, 2019. But in Vancouver, the celebration is just getting started. But before we talk about that, let\’s go back in time to May 7, 1945, when Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in
You might be wondering if I am referring to residential schools. But no, I am talking about the internment camps in World War I and II – right on Canadian Soil. For Germans. Japanese. Ukranians. Austrians, Hungarians. For anyone they considered \”enemy aliens.\” They are listed here: Amherst, Nova Scotia Malleable Iron Foundry April 1915