• Uncovering secrets of the popular miniature Pier 21 model
    … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
  • 1999: Canada’s Resettlement and Repatriation of Kosovar Refugees
    … Due to this large movement of people, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appealed to the international … in Albania, notes that “Communication was difficult…Cell phones died around two o’clock in the afternoon…Moving the refugees required a … 48 (April 2006): 7. See the Canadian Immigration Historical Society’s website, http://cihs-shic.ca/bulletin/ . ↩ United Nations High …
  • First Families of Pier 21
    … 8, 1928. There were only 54 people disembarking at Pier 21 on that day and included passengers from Holland, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, …
  • Walking by Faith by Irma
    … denied us Canadian residency. We hired a lawyer to appeal, and he recommended that we move to Toronto. In Toronto, we had to start from … again. The Ministry made a video about our story, which is on their website. Whenever possible, my husband and I give talks about … process. Now we begin a new adventure. My husband has his own company building beautiful houses, my son is in his first year of …
  • Nomaqhawe Sibanda
    … in the language.” And you know when you read the web sites for communities it is a marketing piece (laughs). So it was sold to me a … differently (laughs). And I liked the cosmopolitan feel from the website of Winnipeg and that you had people from all over the world, … something about Portage, no Main—the intersection at Main and Portage competing with Russia as the coldest spot in the world, and I thought, …
  • Immigrant Voices: Diverse Reactions to the Transatlantic Voyage from Europe to Canada’s Shores
    … This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier … voyage.” Eventually, the Poggi family arrived at Pier 21 on Christmas Day in 1956. [3] In its final year of operation as an ocean immigration … and then permanently settled across Canada. Currently available on our website is part of our written story collection which includes stories …
  • Privacy Policy
    … servers automatically collect certain information about a visit to a website, including the visitor’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP …
  • Joyce Emily Callow Sherwood
    … as a conductor on the buses during the war. I was introduced to my Canadian husband-to-be (William James Sherwood R.C.A. C100060) by my … other, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes. I left England on Friday, April 3, 1947 aboard the S.S. Cunard Aquitania. We arrived in … always been proud to be a Canadian, but loves to go "home" when she can. Unfortunately, there were quite a few years when they couldn't …
  • Language as a "Pull" Factor for Newcomers to Francophone Minority Communities
    … and retain French-speaking immigrants” to Francophone minority Communities (FCMs) in Canada. [2] Almost half of the interviews in … Ben moved to Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, to pursue his university studies; Saïda initially went to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she … into his choices. In this first clip, available elsewhere on our website , he describes how his parents financed his university studies …