• The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Aerial view of Ocean Terminals c. 1940. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Collection … 1939, the advantages of Halifax’s port were considered of value for military purposes. Halifax harbour was large and deep, ice-free and … we’d get the most coins by pushing the others out of the way.” [26] The return for many Canadian service personnel was more sombre: the …
  • “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … federal immigration structure at Confederation until the massive resettlement programs following the Second World War, Canadian … implementation of that refusal supports the description offered in the official government apology of 2018 for denying sanctuary to the … the Chinese café.” [10] However, the responses of Canadian immigration officials to growing numbers of Jewish immigrants show that even …
  • Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … (Updated July 20, 2021) Our Museum is located at a National Historic Site: Halifax’s historical immigration facility at Pier 21. One of the principal tasks for the Museum has been to introduce and orient visitors to the historic place as they … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on …
  • The Action Test of 1920: Literacy and Selection in Canadian Immigration
    … By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian For over a century, Canadian immigration authorities have used language proficiency as a point of consideration in deciding whether a migrant is admissible to Canada. [1] This is not generally a … . [3] Insofar as provincial legislation on agriculture or immigration “is not repugnant to any Act of the Parliament of Canada,” provincial …
  • Historic Pier 21
    … of four adjoining waterfront sheds, the key transit areas of Halifax’s South End Ocean Terminals. The overall development included the grain elevator system, hotel and rail station, rail car maintenance shed, the four waterfront sheds and an annex building for the …
  • F.C. Crosman
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  • The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 20, 2021) “I am not sure whether it will interest you or not but I may state that a number of coloured people have been going from your district lately to Western Canada, and it is not considered that they are a class of colonists who will be likely to …
  • General WC Langfitt
    … photograph, be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). … General WC Langfitt …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 1
    … , meaning “big waterway”) and the area later encompassing Quebec City (known in Algonquin as Kébec , meaning “where the river narrows”). … marked the demographic, sociocultural, and economic fibres of Quebec City. The migrating local populace and incoming European immigrants had … and modes of transportation . This report argues that within Quebec City, one site was shaped by all three aforementioned areas: the Port …
  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
    … Jean was born December 29, 1924 and grew up in London, England. They experienced very different beginnings – Bill grew up an only child, … up with the Canadian Army July 1941 at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, did his basic training in Kingston, Ontario, convoyed to Debert, Nova … factory where Jean was working as part of the war effort. Prior to this she had worked on the London buses, but because she found the shift …