• Hours and Admission Prices
    May to October 31 Open: Seven days a week , 9:30 am to 5:30 pm November to April 30 Open: Wednesday to Sunday , 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Admission Prices Ticket Price includes tax Adult $19.00 Senior (60 years and over) $15.00 Youth (6 - 16 years of age) and Student Rate (with valid ID) $13.00 Children …
  • Children of the Pier: Adolescent Experiences of Arrival and Process
    … their parents used Pier 21’s amenities to rest, take a shower, secure food, or purchase tickets for train travel to their final destination … ask you any questions, if you bring in any money, or jewellery, or food, or anything. Like, we were in the darkness, basically. And if …
  • The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … during the Depression. [4] Until significant movements of soldier dependents began in 1944, the majority of immigrants were citizens … 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 …
  • 1973: Canada’s Response to the Chilean Refugees
    … didn’t know what was going on, that it’s going to be…more like a coup—in those days I didn’t know what a coup was. We only knew that we …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2023
    … old. I think always that if I don't do this, what's going to be his future? I picked him up when he was 10 years old to bring him here. He … stands for. Tolerance, respect for other cultures. When I applied to come to this country, it was like a light inside of the darkness.My … end, we have been working to make sure our building, our exhibitions, website, programs and services are safe, easy to use and barrier-free. …
  • 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 controversial aspect of current Canadian immigration policy, but when the practice first emerged as an …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … past us. We did not know what was happening. Mother came out of the house, calling loudly, "what's happened"? We checked and found that an … camps in Germany. Also gold, silver, art, paintings, bicycles, horses, food and anything of value. For a radio, you could be shot. The last …
  • Dad's Story
    … Stories in Dutch 15 April 1953, na twee uuur slapen werden wij weer op geropen om de groten overtocht te aan vaarden. Just en … Beurskens uit Baarlo (cousin) Met een hartelijk vaart verdween de dierbaar Neersche bodem onder onze voeten. Vroolijke steming heerste er … te viren is opgezet en voor bereid dan toch nog is ‘t scheiden en zoo als tijd is scheiden ook lijden. Dan pas begint men pas te voelen …
  • Corey Verwolf
    … past us. We did not know what was happening. Mother came out of the house, calling loudly, "what's happened"? We checked and found that an … camps in Germany. Also gold, silver, art, paintings, bicycles, horses, food and anything of value. For a radio, you could be shot. The last …
  • Douwe and Hinke Neef and Family
    … their four children Hans (Hank), age 12, Maria Hinke, age 11, Aaltje (Alice), age 9 and Anna Maria, age 2, left Rotterdam, the Netherlands on … but by the end of the film they were the only ones left as everyone else had gone to their cabin seasick. The only one of the family who … roaming the ship or in the kitchen. The kitchen was full of excellent food and delicacies they had not seen in the Netherlands - oranges, ice …