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  • Migration, Work, Uber Driving: Continuity and Rupture
    … and reflections of people from Pakistan, India, and Syria who have come to Canada as refugees, migrants, or immigrants, and have … Uber, we also draw upon two additional interviews with three people—one with the spouse of an Uber driver, and one with two people, Anam … theme relating to Uber driving through the sub-themes of immediate income generation, working conditions, and cultural exchange and skills …
  • Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … Historic Site: Halifax’s historical immigration facility at Pier 21. One of the principal tasks for the Museum has been to introduce and … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on …
  • Children of the Pier: Adolescent Experiences of Arrival and Process
    … 21’s site history is the immigration experience of children. Young newcomers are frequently mentioned in relation to the immigration process … for several days. On 19 August, the vessel carrying Beal and her companions landed at Halifax. Image of CORB child Margaret Beal wearing … Halifax. In most cases, whether the journey or immigration process was easy or difficult, young immigrant or refugee newcomers remained …
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    … including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis A single attendant accompanying a person with a disability Canada Day (July 1) Everyone … Contact LAC's public service point in Halifax. Open: Holidays 2026 Heritage Day, February 16 March Break, March 16-20 Victoria Day, May … October 12 Remembrance Day, November 11 Closed: Holidays 2026 New Year's Day, January 1 Good Friday, April 3 Easter Sunday, April …
  • 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 … 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
    … In the 1930s, Canadians experienced a profound economic recession complicated by drought and the collapse of trade: the Great Depression. … entered Canada per year , an enormous drop from an average of about 126,000 per year during the 1920s. [4] Clifford Sifton, one of the … Throughout The World”, The American Journal of International Law , 26:4 (October 1932), 671. ↩ W.B. Williston to G. Robertson, Cochrane, …
  • Historic Pier 21
    … Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Pier 21 was built as one of four adjoining waterfront sheds, the key transit areas of … ahead of civil examination. [8] After its opening in 1928, almost one million immigrants arrived in Canada at Pier 21 , entrenching the … of the day headlined improved commercial transatlantic radio telephone service. [13] Steamship service across the Atlantic, an established …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … claimed to be returning to Canada while aboard Panama Maru , none were, and all but one recanted their stories quickly as immigration officers inquired … I did not ask of him. It was a man from India who wears a hat. He was one of our country men wearing a hat; I do not know whether he is a …
  • 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 …
  • 1973: Canada’s Response to the Chilean Refugees
    … was the time of long lineup[s] to buy anything…I remember…I went to visit my mom…it was September 11, 1973. Everything changed. Everything … Refugee Chilean Professionals and Students, Professor Lionel Vallée visited Chile on a fact-finding mission to assess the local conditions …

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