• 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 …
  • Visitors' Voices: The Canada: Day 1 Luggage Tags
    … As part of our travelling Canada: Day 1 exhibit, we asked visitors to share their thoughts on immigration to Canada by … parents and closest brother crossed the border on a hot, sunny August day at North Portal, Saskatchewan. We were landed immigrants, Americans … Visitors' Voices: The Canada: Day 1 Luggage Tags …
  • Pte. Charles Joseph Lutton
    … CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH REGIMENT OF CANADA 23/09/1939 - Militia 20/06/1940 - … was able to look back down the RAPIDO RIVER valley from their vantage points on the high ground. It was like seeing a newsreel in Technicolor … Major Frank Southby, O.C.”D” Company was seriously wounded, since died of wounds. An 8 NBH tank picked him up through an escape hatch on …
  • Signs of Agency in Refugee Narratives
    … people who experience war, violence or trauma – are also agents who can exert control in situations defined mostly by control being taken … about Czeslaw Tomaszewski’s wartime experiences and his decision to come to Canada; the courage of Lynda Dyck, also during the Second World … to teachers and administrators in the camp. He also attended high school nearby, and began to learn English . Still, “I lost my …
  • Tyyne Johanna Saarinen
    … Second and Tourist classes. The trip from Gothenburg to Halifax, Nova Scotia was 2852 nautical miles and probably took better than one … a complex of buildings connected by an overhead ramp to Halifax's railway station. It housed the Immigration Services, Customs, Health and … grey building with a brick centre feature and barred windows. The day of arrival began in much the same way for all the arriving …
  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … In the 1930s, Canadians experienced a profound economic recession complicated by drought and the collapse of trade: the Great Depression. … Government…to appoint agents for the purpose of keeping people from coming to Canada.” [5] Thirty years later, the policies of Canadian … or destitute, a professional beggar, or vagrant, or who is likely to become a public charge ,” as well as those who became “a charge upon the …
  • Sarah Sharpe Platana
    … I began these reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this …
  • Flying Officer Daniel D. Platana
    … I began these reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this …
  • LACW Sarah Sharpe Platana
    … I began these reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this …
  • Kathaleen Lines Caldwell, Patricia, John
    … in Bayswater, London in 1939 and met my husband the year following. We were married in April, 1941. My daughter, Pat, was born in September … at that time and my son, John, was born in September, 1944. The next day, Joyce gave birth to a daughter, Gillian. Joyce and I visited one … Kathaleen Lines Caldwell, Patricia, John …