• Hendrik, Hendrika van't Veld
    … Mom & Dad Story In 1953 our uncle, his wife and three children were going to Canada to … Opa wanted to follow their son but keep their family together so their youngest son and family came to Canada also. The youngest son was our … to cross the Northumberland Strait. Our father worked in PEI for 1 year, this placement was not stellar as the farmer was unfortunately …
  • Private Herman Wallace Murray
    … Murray Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry Born: Truro, NS, May 2, 1923 Died: Calgary, AB, March 14, 1979 aged 55 years Son of … her standing by the train, Smiling through tears of grief and pain; My khaki collar showed the trace Of tears from that beloved face. I …
  • Ellen Margaret Dunham LaRocque
    … Margaret Dunham, a war bride who served with the British Air Force, and George John LaRocque, who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England. My parents met in Bournemouth and married in Dorchester, Dorset, U.K. …
  • Immigration from the United States to Canada During the Vietnam War
    … Introduction In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States witnessed … in the Vietnam War divided the country, and some individuals chose to come to Canada. Men who were drafted and did not want to participate in … the war, as well as the Civil Rights Movement. In this online gallery, you will meet ten people who came to Canada from the United States. …
  • An Incomplete Portrait of Canada
    … Photographs capture time. They tell fragments of stories. The Museum is full … destinations all over Canada. This picture of European immigrants welcomed into Canada stands in contrast to those who Canada excluded … Maru , c. May-July 1914. Gurdit Singh (front left) organized the voyage to test Canada’s exclusions of British subjects from India. Sikh …
  • An Incomplete Portrait of Canada
    … Photographs capture time. They tell fragments of stories. The Museum is full … destinations all over Canada. This picture of European immigrants welcomed into Canada stands in contrast to those who Canada excluded … Maru , c. May-July 1914. Gurdit Singh (front left) organized the voyage to test Canada’s exclusions of British subjects from India. Sikh …
  • Bargenda Family
    … My name is Ursula Bargenda. I was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. My husband's name is Manfred Bargenda and he was born in 1924 in a …
  • Consulate General of Switzerland in Montreal
    … durable empreint d'amitié et de confiance entre deux nations ouvertes au monde. Von diesem maritimen Standort in Halifax aus traten Schweizer Bürger ihre Reise an. Ihr Engagement trug zur Entwicklung harmonischer Beziehungen … zwischen ihrem Heimatland und Kanada bei und legte den Grundstein für eine dauerhafte, von Freundschaft und Vertrauen geprägte Bindung …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …