About Us
The history of Toronto is the history of the people that live here. It is always changing. People come and go and yet the memories remain. For every individual too, life is a series of arrivals and departures. Immigrants carry their memories and heritage to their destination and in the new land they fill their homes with aspirations.
There are many arrivals and many departures in this journey. Each encounter becomes a narrative of its own. These stories are unending. We invite people to send us more stories so that we can keep building the Toronto Vine.
This site came together as a result of an organic collaboration of numerous people.
SPECIAL THANKS
This project would not have been possible without the generous support and contribution of the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Content Online strategy, and CultureLink. We would also like to thank CultureLink staff and community for all their assistance. A special thanks to the Board of Directors and to Ibrahim Absiye, Wilson Yu, Francisco Vidal, Lisa Randall, Zarina Decambra and all the staff and clients of the Host Programme, Newcomer Settlement Programme, the Newcomer Youth Programme and the ROMA programme for their support and participation.
We also would like to thank COSTI, The Canadian Journalism for Internationally Trained Writers Proram, Sheridan Instititute of Technology and Advanced Learning and the Immigration Studies Program, Ryerson University, and the Ontario Council of Agency Serving Immigrants (OCASI) for helping us in a variety of ways.
Numerous people came forward and shared their stories with us and some ran workshops for us. We would like to thank them all. We tried to present a variety of viewpoints and ideas but we could not include everyone at this point in time but we shall keeping adding stories to the website.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage
through the Canadian Culture Online Strategy.
