• Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on the model. Trash Cans and Baggage Adding waste bins to the model might seem something of …
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  • The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … the passengers and cargo of large ocean liners, and so could also accommodate the same vessels as troopships. With the outbreak of war in … but to say, "Throw us some money," and they would throw the English coins overboard, or over the ship, which would land on the cement dock … 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 …
  • Children of the Pier: Adolescent Experiences of Arrival and Process
    … Below are impressions of arrival and the immigration process of four adolescents through Pier 21 : Margaret Beal (Britain), Jackie … in Beirut for Naples, Italy with a stop in Port Said, Egypt. After four days, he arrived in Naples, where he transferred to a much larger … litres of oil each. We had six containers of those oil—olive oil, and, four containers of—of olives, uh, that were all home-made stuff, you …
  • The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    … to P.H. York, 17 October 1910. [1] Introduction: Policies of Exclusion for “Undesirable” Immigrants and Discrimination against Black Americans … twentieth century. Settlers from Oklahoma arriving in Canada in 1911 complained of disenfranchisement, theft of property, and refusal of … April 1911, File 72552 Pt 3. ↩ C.A. Speers to J.B. Walker, Winnipeg, 26 October 1910, File 72552 Pt 2, 4. ↩ C.A. Speers to J.B. Walker, …
  • F.C. Crosman
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  • General WC Langfitt
    … When ordering a ship photograph, be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). … General WC Langfitt …
  • Annual Reports and Quarterly Financial Reports
    … Report 2010 - 2011 Quarterly Financial Reports Third quarter 2025-2026 Financial Report Second quarter 2025-2026 Financial Report First quarter 2025-2026 Financial Report Archived Quarterly Financial Reports Third quarter …
  • 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, … 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 work too hard, she moved to the munitions factory. …
  • “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … War. In this long history, the 1939 refusal of the Jewish refugee ship MS St. Louis often stands as a marker for the commemoration and … success this emphasized the need for organized and sustained relationships with immigration officials to deal with the new immigration … detained immigrants. [21] The 1920s were marked by significant partnerships in immigration to advance agricultural settlement, notably the …