• Back to the Land - Peter Seixas
    … Photograph of Peter Seixas splitting logs on the farming commune in Powell River, British Colombia, 1970-1973. Credit: Canadian …
  • Refuge Canada - The Ink Blotter
    … amazing is underneath the ink blotter is a secret message for help. We’ve had it translated from the German and it essentially reads, … Refuge Canada - The Ink Blotter …
  • Colour-Coded Quarantine and a Boy at Play
    … and aunt but my memories are of having a wonderful time,” Alan wrote. “We had tricycles with fixed wheels (the pedals drove the wheels … stuck on the front door and weren’t allowed out and no-one was allowed in. Measles was a yellow card, German Measles a green one, I think, and … Colour-Coded Quarantine and a Boy at Play …
  • Giel, Els, Jack Jonkhout
    … We, my wife Els, son Jack and myself arrived from Holland on Pier 21- Friday, April 2. 1954. I was 28 years old (born 1926), my wife 26 years (1928) and our son was born June 21, 1953. We sailed on the S.S. Waterman. We travelled by train to Toronto …
  • Ezers Guntis
    … February 8, 2005 In June of 1998, I accompanied by my wife, attended the Civil … from ships in Halifax when our families immigrated to Canada, we were interested to learn more. The Tourist Information office …
  • “There was a thriving slave economy on our shores”
    … important. It answers a lot of questions, not only for the greater community but for the African Nova Scotian and Black Canadian community. Here at the Black Cultural Centre, when we would have school kids of colour coming in, they would be kind of ashamed as we start to talk about …
  • “There was a thriving slave economy on our shores”
    … important. It answers a lot of questions, not only for the greater community but for the African Nova Scotian and Black Canadian community. Here at the Black Cultural Centre, when we would have school kids of colour coming in, they would be kind of ashamed as we start to talk about …
  • What is Canadian Food, Anyway?
    … is both diverse and delicious. Generation after generation of newcomers have brought new recipes, ingredients and approaches, while Indigenous cooks have kept old food … foods, a little bit of who we are changes. Just as food helps our bodies grow, so our identity grows when we try food from different …
  • What is Canadian Food, Anyway?
    … is both diverse and delicious. Generation after generation of newcomers have brought new recipes, ingredients and approaches, while Indigenous cooks have kept old food … foods, a little bit of who we are changes. Just as food helps our bodies grow, so our identity grows when we try food from different …
  • Andrea Goetz, daughter Julia
    … We were met at Waterloo Station and taken to a Service Club in the west … we stayed on the top floor on an infirmary. Everyone was tired and weary, babies fussy. The next morning after a surprise breakfast of …