Stories

As a military family from the United Kingdom, we’ve had our fair share of moving. Not just around the UK, but other places such as Hong...

I came to Canada in 1987, when I became engaged to my first husband. He lived in Toronto, so I moved there, where I lived for 18 years...

I’m something of a nomad. I enjoy moving and exploring new places. I was born in Toronto, and currently live in Brockville, but I have...

I grew up in Brockville, left for bigger cities and when presented with an opportunity to return to Brockville to live and work, I was...

I came to Canada to build a new life from scratch and so far I couldn’t be any happier with the decision I made. I arrived in summer of...

I arrived in Canada from Ireland in June, 1982, with a young family (youngest was only 19 days old) with plans to spend two years here...

Favourite Things Maxine, though we mostly call her Max, is turning one at the end of the month. She obviously can’t write or be...

I remember visiting Brockville when I first came to Canada from the US. I was living in downtown Toronto at the time, but my...

It was the dead of winter, a day so cold that when you inhaled through your nostrils, they’d stick together. The snow was heavy and...

My father always wanted to be a farmer. After the war, and a year in a concentration camp, he wanted to leave Holland and follow his...

I was born in the Alps, the French Alps. Twenty-eight years ago I came to Canada, but I first came to Quebec. My first child was born in...

I moved to the Leeds Grenville area from Ottawa in 2006 because my first grandchild was about to be born here. The first few years we...

We didn’t know about this area before we first visited here. If we hadn’t stopped on our way from Montreal to Oakville, I don’t know...

Our region prides itself on its Loyalist roots. It is a good place to come to. In 2017, Brockville welcomed several families from Syria....

Where did you grow up? My family was raised in a tiny Acadian fishing village called Petit de Grat, on Isle Madame in Cape Breton, Nova...

Seven year old Norah MacLaurin-Hogg lives in the Village of Merrickville-Wolford with her parents, 4 brothers, and her dog named Summer. ...

Frank Onasanya, originally from Nigeria, recently sat down with the Immigration Partnership staff and shared with us his story of how he...

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you born and raised? I was born in Brockville at the Brockville General Hospital.  I was...

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you born and raised? I was born in California, USA but my family moved to the Highlands of...