Genealogy and Family History

Youth Corner

Genealogy at School

5th to 8th Grades

The Odyssey of Our Ancestors

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Emigrants from Africa (1982)

Choice 1

You disembark at Toronto where you are met by an immigration official. He takes you to your temporary lodgings where you will stay until you find a job and lodgings of your own. Ontario will not accept your teaching qualifications so you enrol in Teachers College. You find a job cleaning offices at night to help you with living expenses. Continue

Choice 2

You arrive in Toronto where you are met by a friend of your father. He gives you a job in his cleaning business and you live at his home until you get settled and find a place of your own. You fall in love with a member of your host's family and decide to stay in the cleaning business. Continue

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Your final destination

Choice 1

You obtain your teaching qualifications for Ontario and find a job teaching in downtown Toronto. You work hard to lose your Ugandan accent. You join a theatre group and meet your future spouse who works as a nurse. You marry and buy a townhouse in the west part of Toronto. You both continue to work and to enjoy the theatre group.

Choice 2

You obtain your teaching qualifications but cannot find a job in Toronto. You move to Hamilton and accept a job in an insurance office. You become frustrated with teaching and decide to go back to school to study physiotherapy.

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Your final destination

Choice 1

You marry into your host's family and take over many new duties in your father-in-law's business. You and your spouse have two children. You eventually buy out the business from your father-in-law who wants to retire and enjoy his grandchildren.

Choice 2

You marry into your host's family and move to Markham where you buy a house and start up a new branch of the business. The new business is doing well. You now have three children and you have joined several interest groups in the community.

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