Museum Chat Live! E902 – Via Paraguay: Tales from the StoryLab 2

Museum Chat Live! – Museum Chat

In this 3-episode series, host Sean Dineley lets a sampling of long-time St. Catharines residents do most of the talking. The people whose stories you will hear have all been participants in the museum’s StoryLab program. This ongoing oral history project is all about getting the diverse experiences and perspectives of real St. Catharinites into the museum’s collection. By conducting, recording, and transcribing interviews with local residents, we hope to learn more about the wide array of people and communities who call this city home as well as how it has evolved in their lifetimes. Ultimately, the project supports our mission to collect and present a more complete story of St. Catharines.

For this series the theme is all about the immigrant experience in St. Catharines. Most of the 23 people so far interviewed for StoryLab are only a generation or two removed from “the old country”, but seven participants took the trip across the Atlantic, or Pacific, themselves. It is their stories you will hear throughout this series. In Part 1, we heard from two women who moved to Canada from Europe in the wake of the Second World War. This week’s interviewees were also affected by devastation in Europe, but all took an interesting stopover in Paraguay before finding their way to St. Catharines.

Take a listen and share your thoughts with us! The views and opinions expressed on this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre and the City of St. Catharines.

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