• 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 …
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  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
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  • 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, …
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  • “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … anti-Semitism . Despite some successful cooperation between community organizations and immigration authorities to admit and settle … the careful support of F.C. Blair at the immigration branch. [26] He also drew funding from a European benefactor, who arranged a … Stephens, 1976), 116. ↩ C. Paul Vincent, “The Voyage of St. Louis Revisited,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 25:2 (Fall 2011), 255-257. …