• The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    … considered that they are a class of colonists who will be likely to do well in our country.” - Canadian Superintendent of Immigration W.D. … efforts to forestall Black immigrants from the United States went well beyond these other examples. Canadian immigration officials used …
  • General WC Langfitt
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  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
    … 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 … hard, she moved to the munitions factory. Bill and Jean dated for a while. During this time Bill was sent on war schemes around various … Bill spent time in Belgium, France, Walcheren Island and Holland, and had advanced to Oldenburg, Germany when the war was finally declared …
  • Audrey Pratt
    … as far away as the White Cliffs of Dover. I could even tell by the sound of their engines that they were the enemy. It had a different drone of the engine. You could see the soldier's eyes in the cockpit - that was how low they flew. We had to get to our shelters anyway we could, …
  • Patricia Norlander and son Stanley
    … pretended I was older than my seventeen years. Much to his surprise I hadn't aged any when he returned two years later and I was still only … not knowing whether we would be granted permission to marry (at the last minute it was), we were married on April 14th, 1945 at the … for our voyage to Canada. Like many other War Brides, my family waved good-bye as the local bus to Sheffield went pass my former home …
  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … not be allowed to have the work on the Power and R.R. construction, while hundreds of Canadians are standing in the bread line.” [2] …
  • Seafood Momo
    … elements of their unique cultural food traditions. Step 1: Dough Combine the flour and salt in a bowl. Gradually add water while mixing until a soft, smooth, non-sticky dough forms. Add oil and knead until fully incorporated. Cover and let the dough rest for 30 minutes. Step 2: Salmon Fume Simmer all ingredients together over …
  • 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 …
  • Movement of War Brides and Their Children through Pier 21
    … allowed for the admission to Canada of bona fide agriculturalists who had sufficient means to commence farming in Canada. However, … servicemen discharged on medical grounds returned to Canada; they had married while serving in Britain, bringing this pressing issue to … of the members of the Canadian Forces overseas, where such personnel had returned or were returning to Canada.” [4] The same provision would …
  • Historic Pier 21
    … development, nor were some of their subsequent ideas approved. They had sought the use of space in other sheds, or even another pier and … followed a gradual movement of equipment from Pier 2 to Pier 21 that had started in late January 1928. [11] Immigration operations required … the unemployment of immigrants. The landing of “pauper immigrants” had been a featured prohibition of Canadian immigration policy since …