• Mels van der Laan
    … December 9, 1955 – Ryndam Born Melchior Franciscus van der Laan, the youngest of five children. The oldest being my brother Han, 17 years … truly, fondly known as Mels. Although very young at the time, I still can see the invading troops marching down the Dijk where I lived. I … the Canadian, British and American soldiers came through our town of Lisse in 1945. My fathers’ business was growing bulbs for export, along …
  • Odi, Maria, Eliana, Fiorenza
    … MY IMMIGRATION STORY April 27, 1959 was the day I arrived in Halifax, Canada along with my mother Maria and … my father, Odi, who had arrived 2 years earlier to start a new life here. The Italy of the 1950’s was a country trying to undo the ravages … Odi, Maria, Eliana, Fiorenza …
  • George S and Geraldine G Zwaagstra
    … George (Sjouke, Jr.) arrived from The Tjerkwerd, The Netherlands on April 27, 1951 aboard the Georgic with his parents Sjouke and Anna Zwaagstra and younger brother Broer (Gerald). His older brother Pier (Peter) arrived at Pier 21 …
  • Mels Fr. van der Laan
    … Born Melchior Franciscus van der Laan, the youngest of five children. The oldest being my brother Han, 17 years … truly, fondly known as Mels. Although very young at the time, I still can see the invading troops marching down the Dijk where I lived. I … the Canadian, British and American soldiers came through our town of Lisse in 1945. My fathers' business was growing bulbs for export, along …
  • Party Dresses, New Friends and Other Advice for a Long Quarantine
    … Blackman’s parents told them they were going to Canada. They were thrilled. They were born in Canada and their family had moved back to their … journey to begin,” recalled Grace. Grace and Percy Blackman in 1940. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2017.222.1] “My … absolutely, wonderful to us and did everything they could to make us comfortable, entertained and happy. “On one occasion they took me to …
  • Driving Canada: A Collaborative Oral History Project
    … immigrant experiences, using Uber as a unique entry point into people’s journeys. We met in the Greater Toronto Area to collect oral … to Canada who are currently driving, or have driven Uber in the past. In this article, Haroon Khalid and Anam Zakaria of Qissa, and … to both the CMIP and Qissa, and potentially other external researchers as well, to learn from, and possibly create additional content, …
  • Dennis Teitsma
    … Families Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get away from it all. Living in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war … a permit was required to butcher anything. They could also have shot my parents for fostering Carrie, a Jewish toddler. My wife on the …
  • Benchmarking our digital preservation achievements
    … At the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, the focus of the collection is digital-born and digitized items, including oral histories, … tools available for anyone to use. Our team recently spent some time completing both of these assessments, in order to measure how far we … DPC Assessment - Current Level in Blue and Target Level in Orange. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 2024 DPC Assessment - …
  • Canada Strong Pass
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  • Dennis Teitsma Annie vd.Zee Teitsma
    … Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get away from it all. Living in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war … a permit was required to butcher anything. They could also have shot my parents for fostering Carrie, a Jewish toddler. My wife on the …