I grew up in Sarajevo, a city in the former Yugoslavia, with all my memories tied to the European cities. These are memories of the 'old world', history, grit, and cultures overlaid through the centuries. While this heritage was strong, it had not prepared me for what awaited me after arriving in Canada as a war refugee in 1996. (Sasa Radulovic) Read full story

...Quand j’ai finalement élu domicile à Ottawa, j’ai vu un paysage urbain qui réunissait à la fois les maisons des francophones -- ces petites maisons de bois familières du côté de Hull -- et les maisons des anglophones, souvent construites en briques, semblables à celles observées dans les autres quartiers anglophones visités au fil des années. (Brigitte Desrochers) Read full story

...So I packed up my bedroom, got my visa and left for Toronto. I'm not going to say that the move has been easy or that I don't occasionally miss home. But I can't imagine doing anything else or being anywhere else. (Chantal) Read full story

My face pressed against the glass of the exit door at the back of the big yellow school bus that collected us each morning at 7:52am. I was desperate to see snow. Flurries the night before had left a sprinkling on the frozen gravel road that stretched endlessly across the flat, flat prairies. The bus rumbled forward and with gathering speed, thin serpents of snow and dust... (Peter Hargraves) Read full story

My first impression when I arrived to Ottawa and Gatineau from Montevideo – Uruguay was the immense amount of free space, of air…"where is the city”, I wondered. The city seems to be the free spaces, the voids that are connected by infrastructure. (Natalia Barreto) Read full story

A Chinese king built an exactly same village near his palace for his parent because he could not convince them to live with him, he also forced all original village residents to move into this new town to mimic the social structure that old village had . Unfortunately, people began to escape from this new village after they moved in because they could not find the sense of “... (Bin Chen) Read full story

I emigrated to Canada in the 1950s, relocating from Hong Kong to Vancouver. The first time I returned to China it was with a back-pack in 1972, a time when travel to China was unusual. This experience was highly political and influential at the time... (Bing Thom) Read full story

Having grown up as a military family gypsy, it is no surprise that I had been back and forth across Canada 10 times by my early teens, followed by education and an early work career that had taken me to Europe. Returning to Canada with a family, I was allowed to experience the country through their eyes... (Brian Lilley) Read full story

I remember being introduced to wax crayons on the long train ride between Halifax and Montreal... (Panagiotis Sitaras architect) Read full story