https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a en-us 2022-12-25 22:31:43 UTC 2026-02-16 00:19:20 UTC hello@padlet.com mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665428 My mom says that my grandma and grandpa always left her at home so that they could go to a speakeasy while she was a teen. So, once she got old enough, she went to one. She said the atmosphere was ecstatic and rushing because you could've been caught anytime. My mom is n this very picture at the front, although that man she's with isn't my dad.]]> 2022-12-25 22:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665428 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665440 My mom said that she and my uncle (her brother) often went to soup kitchens. She said that my grandpa got laid off and they were struggling because even they invested in the stock market. They had barely any money so they did their best to get buy. By this time my mom was 21 so she did her best to also provide money.]]> 2022-12-25 22:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665440 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665459 In 1942, many Japanese people (including my father) were sent to Japanese internment camps after the incident of pearl harbor and fear they were Japanese spies. All my father's belongings were sold, so he came back to nothing. Before they sent him away they made him move to Manitoba because he wasn't allowed to be near a coast since he had a boat for fishing. Because of that, we now live in Halifax, Nova Scotia. My dad says he had to do roadwork and other types of physical labour.]]> 2022-12-25 22:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665459 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665585 My grandpa on my mom's side was one of the soldiers in Hong Kong. He fought the Japanese imperial army and became a Prisoner of War. My grandpa was one of 1428 that survived the POW camps. He said that at the camps they were poorly fed and many people around him caught diseases. ]]> 2022-12-25 22:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665585 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665595 During the bombing of Hiroshima, my father's uncle (my grandpa's brother) died as did my grandfather. My dad doesn't really like talking about it but he said my grandfather went to Japan to visit my uncle because after he grew up he moved back to Japan, alone. My dad said he to write him letters about every day talking about the different things they did. Both my grandfather and my great uncle died.]]> 2022-12-25 22:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2428665595 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2433783150 During the Person's case, my mother was friends with one of the famous five, although she never reveals who it was. My mom said that it was a very stressful moment for women in Canada because this decided whether they could vote, run for senate, and be a person. My mom told me that they had secret tea parties to avoid suspicion which is GENIOUS. In 1929, women were included under the term "Person".]]> 2023-01-04 16:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2433783150 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2435030906 2023-01-05 19:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2435030906 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2435062339 2023-01-05 19:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2435062339 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2443733061 2023-01-13 15:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2443733061 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2447049840 Although the war was mainly between the U.S. and Russia, Canada still played a part. My mom always tells me about this guy named Igor Gouzenko. He worked at the Russian Embassy and would help with sending and receiving information to and from Moscow. He was amazed by the freedom in Canada, so he stole many documents and left the Soviet Embassy on September 5, 1945. ]]> 2023-01-17 15:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2447049840 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2447053349 I don't think my mom notices, but she always mentions how she didn't like how Black people started moving into her neighbourhood. She said that my grandpa and her neighbours would make signs that discouraged non-white people from moving into a house in their area. She said that once she and a couple of her co-workers would write letters to their Black neighbours as a "joke" and say they would burn their house down. One thing that surprised me was that when the news about Viola Desmond's arrest broke out, she was so angry at the fact they didn't even let her offer to play for the front row.]]> 2023-01-17 15:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2447053349 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2447053955 My mom said that when Quebec was trying to get independence that there was a terrorist group. Sometimes she gets off-put when she talks about it. That's because my aunt once told off one of the protesters and he threatened to bomb her mailbox and house. The worst part is that my mom wasn't there to protect her because she went there on a school trip, so none of her family was with her. ]]> 2023-01-17 15:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2447053955 mirunasuntharalingam https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2450419892 2023-01-19 21:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mirunasuntharalingam/msgzv5dbj4mrl01a/wish/2450419892