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  • Artist-in-Residence 2024 - Annie Valentina
    It was our great pleasure to host Annie Valentina as our playwright-in-residence summer/fall 2025. Annie holds a BA in Theatre from Dalhousie University and is a past Merritt Award nominee for her 2014 play Alien . She was formerly the Artistic Associate of Neptune Theatre, where her play Ballad of …
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  • “There was a thriving slave economy on our shores”
    Shackles like this reproduction, created by a blacksmith at Port Greville, Nova Scotia, were used on enslaved peoples in Canada. Courtesy of Dr. Afua Cooper. An interview with Russell Grosse , Executive Director of the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, on the new exhibition A History Exposed: …
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  • Workers from the Philippines in Western PEI
    By Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian Introduction This blog focusses on the work lives of four women from the Philippines who are among the many Filipinos to arrive in Prince Edward Island in recent years. All four women participated in oral history interviews in 2023, and all four live in Western …
  • New perspectives: 25 years after our grand opening
    Pier 21 re-opened its doors on July 1, 1999. July 1 of this year marked a special anniversary : 25 years since our building first re-opened its doors as a museum. Pier 21 served as a gateway to Canada from 1928 to 1971. Nearly a million people arrived through the building, disembarking from …
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