Untold: The Story of the Jamaican Community in Canada
Untold: The Story of the Jamaican Community in Canada
Podcast Description
Untold explores the stories of Jamaicans across Alberta to learn more about their culture and heritage.
Through conversations with people about what it was like to leave Jamaica and come to Canada, we’ll explore their successes and challenges, and how they’ve shared their culture and experiences with Canadians through food, poetry, spirituality, career and education — narratives which have been overlooked and left untold.
This series was produced by journalism students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, as part of the Community Podcast Initiative.
Special thanks to Dr. Marva Ferguson, and the Jamaican Community Association of Alberta, who have been so supportive in helping put this series together.
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Focuses on Jamaican culture, immigration experiences, and community building, with episodes highlighting stories from various guests about their journeys in Canada, food culture like Daddy C's Jerk Sauce, the impact of poetry, spirituality, and education on their lives.
Untold explores the stories of Jamaicans across Alberta to learn more about their culture and heritage.
Through conversations with people about what it was like to leave Jamaica and come to Canada, we’ll explore their successes and challenges, and how they’ve shared their culture and experiences with Canadians through food, poetry, spirituality, career and education — narratives which have been overlooked and left untold.
This series was produced by journalism students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, as part of the Community Podcast Initiative.
Special thanks to Dr. Marva Ferguson, and the Jamaican Community Association of Alberta, who have been so supportive in helping put this series together.
In this episode, hosts Amy Jaquish and Hannah Schidlowsky sit down with Dr. Reverend Joy Johnson Green who immigrated to Montreal from the Caribbean at just 8 years old. From there her family moved to Calgary, where she pursued a degree in social work and was ordained at just 23 years old. She then gained her Masters in West Virginia, USA. Now she is a senior pastor at the Showers of Blessings Apostolic church in Calgary. Join hosts Amy Jaquish and Hannah Schidlowsky to hear about Reverend Joy’s journey.
This series was produced by journalism students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, as part of the Community Podcast Initiative.
Find out more about the Jamaican Community Association of Alberta here.
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