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A Story of Canadian Immigration - Dec. 2015

Item

Title
A Story of Canadian Immigration - Dec. 2015
Description
This visual assignment will be examining the story of a German community member of the London German Club. I will be sharing his story of coming to Canada and all the changes he had to go through culturally and socially. He decided to leave behind a farm that had been passed down in his family for over 14 generations and I would like to see what feeling he was experiencing at that time. I will be examining the struggles and difficulties that this individual has encountered throughout the opening few years of being exposed to an alien culture. When immigrants leave behind their homeland they either fall in love with the country they move to or regret their decision. This portrait will also be exploring to see if the individual ultimately considers themselves as Canadian or German after having live in Ontario for over 30 years.
Subject
A visual portrait devoted to August Spangenberg's story of integration and immigration as a German farmer to Canada in 1981. Moving from a rural town near Hannover to St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
Creator
Yannis Willi
Source
Original
Publisher
Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Cultures in Action, Western University, Fall 2015
Date
December 4th, 2015
Contributor
August Wilhelm Spangenberg
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Relation
Is part of German Collection.
Format
Video
iMovie Clip, with photo integration
Language
German & English
Type
Moving Image
Identifier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxLbck-dcHI
Coverage
POINT(1083877.0609329 6869052.6151204)|3|1086628.7939508|6861344.4185503|osm
Hannover, Germany.
Extent
8 minutes 11 seconds
producer
Yannis Willi
director
Yannis Willi
Item sets
German Collection