• Children of the Pier: Adolescent Experiences of Arrival and Process
    … of Immigrating to Canada An often overlooked aspect of Pier 21’s site history is the immigration experience of children. Young newcomers …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … legal documentation and provide testimony to a federal immigration official that he or she is a minor. Otherwise, within Canadian immigration policy, … who were resettled in Canada, between 1869 and 1932. But little has been written about another, much smaller, experiment nearly a …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) On 17 October 1913, Panama Maru … (Q): What did you tell the Immigration Officer on the boat? Mr Singh (A): A man at Hong Kong told me to say what I said on the boat. Q: Is what you said on the boat true? A: The man at … “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of …
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    … Annual Report 2022 - 2023 Archived Annual Reports Annual Report 2021 - 2022 Annual Report 2020 - 2021 Annual Report 2019 - 2020 Annual Report 2018 - 2019 Annual Report … Report 2010 - 2011 Quarterly Financial Reports Third quarter 2025-2026 Financial Report Second quarter 2025-2026 Financial Report First …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … and others, paratroopers were jumping out of planes. Two planes were shot down before 8:00 a.m. and landed in a neighbour’s field. It was … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …
  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 20, 2021) “There is no Exclusion Act in the Dominion of Canada” “The doors which once were opened wide are now but slightly ajar. The countries that boasted of their liberal attitudes toward new settlers – particularly the countries of the Western …
  • Corey Verwolf
    … and others, paratroopers were jumping out of planes. Two planes were shot down before 8:00 a.m. and landed in a neighbour's field. It was … hit the basement wall and went straight down without exploding. At this moment, it was the first time that I thought that this was not the … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …
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