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At Portuguese Information centre, an immigrant who can't speak English fluently is counselled
At Portuguese Information centre, an immigrant who can't speak English fluently is counselled

At Portuguese Information centre, an immigrant who can't speak English fluently is counselled

Date1/18/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: At Portuguese Information centre; an immigrant who can't speak English fluently is counselled. Interpreters are needed in public offices for those not fluent in our language; says reader.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0023928F
      Young children, some of whom cannot speak English, paint together in the kindergarten of a Portuguese information centre on Bathurst St., where immigr(...)
      Young children, some of whom cannot speak English, paint together in the kindergarten of a Portuguese information centre on Bathurst St., where immigr(...)
      Bezant, Graham
      6/17/1973
      Dr. Paul Rekai and his brother, both immigrants, founded Central Hospital, which is renowned for its services for patients who don't speak English
      Dr. Paul Rekai and his brother, both immigrants, founded Central Hospital, which is renowned for its services for patients who don't speak English
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      2/13/1981
      Dr. Victor Kumar-Misir: Scarborough emergency room physician says people who can't speak English suffer needlessly because they can't communicate with doctors.
      Dr. Victor Kumar-Misir: Scarborough emergency room physician says people who can't speak English suffer needlessly because they can't communicate with doctors.
      Cooper, David
      6/8/1984
      Subpoenaed: A cleaning worker, who refused to give her name, displays some of the subpoenas that brought about 100 Portuguese immigrant women to a Labor Relations Board hearing yesterday
      Subpoenaed: A cleaning worker, who refused to give her name, displays some of the subpoenas that brought about 100 Portuguese immigrant women to a Labor Relations Board hearing yesterday
      Mahler, John
      10/2/1979
      Fluently Bilingual, Gerald LeDain, new dean of Osgoode Hail Law School, and wife Cynthia, can help their six children who all study French
      Fluently Bilingual, Gerald LeDain, new dean of Osgoode Hail Law School, and wife Cynthia, can help their six children who all study French
      Darrell, Dick
      4/9/1968
      Help for a new Canadian: A Portuguese immigrant, with back to camera, is interviewed by Milton Little, co-ordinator of the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Services for Working People, and his Portuguese interpreter, Emilia Lopes
      Help for a new Canadian: A Portuguese immigrant, with back to camera, is interviewed by Milton Little, co-ordinator of the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Services for Working People, and his Portuguese interpreter, Emilia Lopes
      Griffin, Doug
      6/24/1970
      Labor shortage: Government training centres can't produce skilled workers, complains Leo Denz, and another section of the same federal government says you can't bring in skilled immigrants.'
      Labor shortage: Government training centres can't produce skilled workers, complains Leo Denz, and another section of the same federal government says you can't bring in skilled immigrants.'
      Mahler, John
      6/3/1981
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      Long-term factory workers are taken through the shock and pain of job loss, taught how to look for work, counselled as to career changes they canmake, or helped in choosing a retraining program
      Mahler, John
      8/13/1982
      Laura Bulger: Wrote book on problems Portuguese immigrants face
      Laura Bulger: Wrote book on problems Portuguese immigrants face
      Russell, Jim
      12/17/1986
      The logographic-emblematical French spelling-book, or, French pronunciation made easy : being a method by which any child, four or five years old, and of ever so slow an apprehension, although perfectly unacquainted with his letters, will, in a few months, be enabled to read French fluently, and will pronounce its as if he were a Parisian born : to which are added, besides instructions to enable any person to put this method in practice, a systematical appendix, justifying its principles, as likewise various reading-pieces, of the composition of the author, highly interesting, at least for their novelty
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      Boosey, T. (Thomas)
      1814
      Canada, 1863, for the information of immigrants
      Canada, 1863, for the information of immigrants
      Buchanan, Alexander Carlisle, 1808-1868
      1863
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      Interpreter Lewis Aguiar helps Zulmira Cabrita and Jose Pera, both standing, and Victoria Guerreiro, at the Portuguese Centre. Portuguese agencies are(...)
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