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I learned a lot about my family’s history, as I never really asked them about it before. Everything from how they came to Canada and they’re experience in Vietnam was new to me. I also got the chance to ask about my grandfathers, whom I also did not know much about. I also learned a lot about my friends and classmates. I can see how they or their parents came to Canada and see how that effects them today. It was also interesting to see how people who immigrated from the same countries have different immigration stories. I think it’s important to have assignments that reflect on our heritage because it allows us to relate more to the course content and see how the history has effected us as individuals. By doing this assignment, I’ve definitely became more interested in the world’s history and how it could’ve effected my family and I (and I’m sure most of my classmates feel the same way).

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I think learning about our history is important. This is because we can learn so many special facts about ourselves that we wouldn’t have known otherwise. Normally it can be boring, but putting the puzzle pieces of your own story together is really an exciting thing to do. I think that when we start to understand our history, we also start to appreciate our privileges as well as our presence and why that history happened for everything to be the way it is right now. There have probably been some problems, conflicts, and struggles in the path that we don’t recognize the significance of. We normally don’t take the time to learn, and act like it didn’t have any effect on our lives. I have learnt so much about my culture back in India, the realistic view that anyone but a citizen there wouldn’t see, my parents’ immigration, and our lives compared as teenagers. Overall I’m thankful I didn’t have to live and be raised in poverty in such a dangerous and violent country.

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I learned more about how my parents lived when they were teenagers. I believe that with the help of assignments of this kind, you can find out a lot of information about your family.

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I learned a lot about my family and their life in Pakistan while doing this project and helped me realize how lucky I am to live in a better place now. It helps me think about all the struggles they went through to help me get a better future and better education in Canada. I never knew how much privilege I have until I learned more about my families past

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While working on this assignment I got to find out new information about who I am, I also got to learn more about my family and what they had to go through. Before doing this assignment I thought I had a pretty good understanding about my family, but after having the opportunity to ask about my history I found out there is a lot that I still need to know for me to fully understand who I am and where I come from.

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Honestly I didn’t really learn much while doing this project because I have already known this information about my family for while. What I did learn that was new was my family’s experiences in the war. I’ve always recognized that learning history is important because it is good to know how we got to where we are today and to learn from the past to prevent making the same mistakes we’ve already made, despite the fact that history hasn’t really interested me. But, I thought this project was interesting because it was my history.

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It’s not truly history unless we understand why and how things happened, and this project was a good practice activity for developing and asking those questions, along with searching for the information. This project was a fun one to do, as we got to learn the deep history of ourselves, some of which I knew, some of which I didn’t. I learned interesting things like how my grandfather was a chemist during WWII, and I learned how my great grandfather was forced into working within the first week of arriving in Canada (at just 13 years old). This felt like the best way to get us to properly connect with history class, and I’m more confident in my abilities for the next assignment.

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I do not learn all that much about my history due not be able to find anything, but I think that’s this was important since I know a lot of others were able to better relate their and their families lives to more experiences. It’s important for us to be able to relate to others experiences so we so we can build empathy and better understand why they choose to do what they do. Even though my assignment led to a dead end, I learned that that’s something that comes up in history, sometimes we just can’t find the answers we’re looking for, and because of this, I better understand why it’s so important to document what we do discover. By taking better care of our histories we’re able to learn so much more about our selves and those that came before us. Even though my history is very limited, I think this may also help with my own sense of empathy. Some people don’t have long reasons for doing what they do, and to those people I can relate. Not many people can do that so I think it’s just as important as relating family history.

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During this assignment, I learned lots about my German background. I can now relate to my family in a better away. I liked this assignment because I got to know my grandparents, aunts and uncles better. I rarely see them or even speak to them. Next time I see them, I look forward to learning more about them. A lot of the information I got was from my mother but I would love to hear about it from them personally. I have learned lots of new things about myself that I never knew before!

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I learned so much about my family through this project. I mainly learned how and why my family came to Canada and the struggles they went through. This project made me ask my family questions that I normally wouldn’t have, and it brought very interesting answers. I think it’s important to reflect on your heritage, because it can help you better understand why you are where you are today. This project brought me closer to some of my relatives, because it forced me to ask them about their past and listen to them. Learning about your family history will insure that your family’s stories won’t be lost to time just yet.

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I learned about how many family lived during the wars in Italy and it was very interesting. I also learned about the many places in Italy that my grandpa stayed at because his family went through a hard time with money. My grandparents had hard lived in Italy and they were really surprised with how much it changed overtime. I think it is important to have these kinds of assignments because it engages us to talk and learn about what our families went through. If we didn’t learn about it or write it down, the history could be lost which is really sad since a lot of people might not be close to their family so they can’t really find the information. Knowing where you came from and your background is truly life changing.

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This project was very helpful to me since I got to learn so much new information about my family. I don’t always get the chance to talk to my grandparents about what their lives were like when they were younger and their experiences traveling to Canada, so I really enjoyed asking them. I hope I get to do more projects like this one in the future, since I believe that it is important to know about your history and your family’s past, and it can help you get closer to your relatives.

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This assignment made me realize that there was a lot about my family that I didn’t know. It gave me a chance to listen to my parent’s stories and struggles of how/why they came to Canada. My parents experiences are very different from mine, and this project has made me realize how lucky I am that I didn’t have to live and grow up in poverty or have to immigrate. Overall, this assignment really opened my eyes and helped me understand my family a little better.

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While doing this project I learned a lot about relatives and ancestors that helped me understand more about myself (why I look the way I do, how my passions related to my ancestors passions, reasons relatives behave the way they do). But I also learned more about those close to me, the people I grew up around, I got to go more in depth into the stories I’ve heard simplified 100 times over. It’s important to have assignments like this because it makes ask us ask questions we wouldn’t otherwise ask ourselves and our families.

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I learned a lot about my family and my ancestors, I learned the meaning of primary and secondary evidence and now use the terms quite frequently in daily life, I know more about the history of the war as I am more used to British history, so everyday I'm learning more and more about Canada's history and the world's history! I hope that I can learn even more for the future coming forward !

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This project was really fun and I found a lot of reasoning as to why we came to Canada. Uncovering history about my family was fascinating. Although my family history was quite boring, I still enjoyed having these conversations with my family and communicating with them. Learning about others history and heritage was very interesting and I loved seeing how different and diverse we are. This assignment helps us reflect and understand others history and how we can relate them to our daily life’s now.

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I learned a lot from this acctually because there’s actually things I knew about my moms history unfortunately I couldn’t show but it was really interesting and I didn’t know my mom came to Canada at a young age I thought she came a lot later then I thought and I just got to understand a lot with my family and stuff like that

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I think it’s really important to learn about our own heritage through these assignments because they force us to the ask questions we’d never have thought of and the questions we might not have deemed necessary to ask.

I learnt about how strong my family was and about the struggles they went through and over came. I also learnt about how differ t my parents lives were from mine.

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This assignment reassured me that not talking to my extended family is not a bad thing. I still gained lots of knowledge about the history of my family through my parents. I felt this assignment was fun because we got to reflect on our heritage compared to someone else’s.

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Throughout the assignment, I uncovered many history moments within my family that I did not know. It helped me understand my family history in a deeper way and gave me a chance to make me feel connected to it. Likewise, having assignments similar to this can help those connect with their heritage and relearn the history of their family.

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Most of the information I got from this project were things I already knew, but it was very nice to reflect back on it and look through my own history despite that fact. Even though neither me, my parents, nor my grandparents have really been through all that much, it’s still nice to get a refresher on the life that they may have lived compared to my own and how much society and the world has grown and progressed since then. I did get a slightly better understanding on my parents lives and how they went through say by day compared to how my life goes by on a daily basis.

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I learned a lot during this project, I mostly learned about my great grandpa and my great great grandparents. I think it's important to learn about our history so then future generations know about these stories too. I know when I first asked my grandma and my great grandpa about their past both of their faces lit up and they were so excited to tell me about it.

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I learned more about my family that not even my parents and grandparents knew from old generals that belonged to my great-grandfather. I think it was super important to do this assignment, not only did it teach me a lot about who I am background wise but I think it brought me closer to my relatives and gave me a better understanding of where I come from.

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Doing this assignment gave me an excuse to ask my family about our history. I learned so much about my ancestors and their experiences that I probably wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t put this presentation together. For example, I never knew my paternal grandmother came to Canada from The Netherlands to find a better life after WWII. I gained so much information about my fellow classmates and their pasts. I realized how diverse each of my peers backgrounds are. I think it’s important to have assignments that reflect on our history in order to circulate our ancestors stories and experiences so they are not forgotten. Now, I have a vast assortment of my families history that I can pass on to my descendants.

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I learned a lot from the project, mainly about my mom’s side and my great grandpa in the war. I think learning about your history is important, because you get a better understanding of where you came from and what the world was like before you were born.

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Over the course of the ‘my history’ I learned new things about my family, like the fact that my family has lived in Canada for 5 generations. I think it’s important to do assignments like this so not only do we get to know ourselves better but we can learn more about our classmates.

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I gained a lot of knowledge from this assignment, and it was fascinating to uncover more history about myself. I leaned so much about the war in Ireland, my mom’s immigration experience, my dad’s childhood, and my Métis heritage. I definitely understand why this is an important assignment! I find basic history  dry and boring. However, when investigating topics that applied to me I was much more intrigued and willing to learn.

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Thank you all for taking the time to research and create your astounding presentations. I know that researching ones heritage is a daunting task, but the learning you've gained is worth the effort. I hope that you have gained deeper understanding about who you are, as well as the struggles your family had to endure on their journey to becoming a Canadian. Remember, in order to grow, we must learn from our mistakes. The only way to do that is to know our HISTORY.