Monthly Feature
“There’s no place that we don’t belong.”
Immigration History
“Nova Scotia has been home to people of African descent for over 300 years.”
Some individuals came as slaves in the service of white masters, but many others arrived as free migrants seeking a new homeland. During and following the War of 1812, approximately 2,000 escaped slaves arrived in Nova Scotia, having attained freedom in the course of the conflict. An estimated 400 of this number journeyed onward to New Brunswick. This group collectively became known as the Black Refugees.
Read the full article: Shaping a Community: Black Refugees in Nova Scotia⟶
Immigration History
“Food speaks. It tells of memories, of relationships, cultural histories, and personal life stories.”
Lucy Long, Interdisciplinary Scholar
One of the most important aspects of food and migration is that foodways are changeable from many points along a migration. New dishes from the old country can make their way into kitchens around the world. Migrants who left a country two decades before might find their link with that old place renewed through new and trendy foods that they never experienced there.
Read the full article: Cookbooks, Cultural Connections, And Migration⟶
The cookbook nook in eat make share: a taste of immigration offers a colourful and comfortable place to read a number of great cookbooks.
Credit: Colin Timm / Canadian Museum of Immigration, 2025.
Countless Journeys Podcast
Listen in on these original interviews where guests share the obstacles—and the fun—they experienced on their way to building lives in Canada.
