Tagged “Immigration”
Browse Tagged “Immigration” from the Canadian Macedonian Heritage Society archive, library and community collections.
We Arrived in Canada
On the fourth of March I left the village And went to Athens From there I would come here And I would have a fine time My cabin was down in the depths On the Queen Frederica Three others and myself Locked in like mice We stopped in Naples It was the first stop Up to there we had a good time It still hadn’t hit us yet When we left Gibraltar Out on the open waters Very few of us remained standing ...
As soon as I collect three thousand
You become a stranger in your own place A stranger in foreign lands They changed our names And they look like boxes So, you can have a permit to work An uncle tells me The old ones have to change The names, above all A thousand up and down in the piggybank They called me Box It didn’t bother me very much I’m not going to stay there anyway First job in Canada Washing dishes, and lots of them It ...
The 1950s
That decade Was very important. We carried great hope, Without having any worries. The worries belonged to our parents — Though we never knew it. They did whatever had to be done With only what remained to them. We did not have much money, And we did not need it. Whoever had a little bread Shared it with everyone. We played skrumbousta in the streets, With stones and broken slabs; In the fields ...
The Sacrifice of a Sister
Mother, all the young men are leaving far away. They go to find work — they are all at the ports. I too must leave somewhere else, wherever fate may take me, since it was God’s will to make me their protector. “Where will you leave me, my son, with three little girls?” “But that is why I must go, Mother — I am not searching for palaces. There is no work here nearby. Give me all your blessings; I ...
