• My Father’s Music - Ilse Thompson
    … Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · My Father’s Music Time 0:03:48 Transcript Ilse Thompson (IT): And, um, we had a wonderful time. But then the day came when I met my girlfriend on the street. A girlfriend, my best friend, on the … My Father’s Music - Ilse Thompson …
  • More than a Building
    … Pier 21 today, as it was in years past, is a building. For visitors past and present, some find this site unmoving. They give little thought to what the walls and their surroundings have …
  • Quotes - Netherlands
    A collection of individual quotes are provided here to highlight some of the experiences of immigrants from the Netherlands. Deciding to Leave - Saying Goodbye Travelling Arrival in Canada All Aboard - On The Train Life in …
  • Tino Masecchia
    … September 1965 The Trip It was on the 24th of September 1965, the day I turned 10 years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early in the morning to go …
  • Fred Carter
    … in Manchester, England and immigrated to Canada arriving in Quebec City May 27, 1912 on the Tunisian. He died in Vancouver, BC December … family had to delay their passage. He spoke of “feeling like a big shot” traveling alone although he later appreciated how hard it must … there was a smallpox outbreak on the ship. This led to a three week (May 11-June1) quarantine off the coast at Grosse Isle, near Quebec. As …
  • Hungarian Culture Trunk Artifacts
    … Arrival in Canada Life in Canada Personal ID Documents Post Revolution Articles Travel …
  • Gaetano Rossi
    … shirt and tie. In his pocket were his passport and immigration papers. The sun was shining and Gaetano Rossi was arriving at Halifax's Pier 21. This time, however, he had come by car from Toronto not by boat from Naples. He was 68 not 18. He … things worked and where we should go. The date was July 28, 2001 and my uncle was in Halifax for the first time since he arrived at Pier 21 …
  • Sergeant Charles Elliott Brown
    … Charles Elliott Brown Service # F67753 Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps June 1940 to July 1945 To my Mother, Diane in memory … anxious to get to the front and see action. On the evening of June 5th 1944 he set sail for Normandy, France to take part in the D-Day …
  • Immigration History
    Browse by topic Refugees 14 War 8 Immigration Facilities 7 Religious Persecution 4 Museums and Heritage Institutions 3 Browse most recent …
  • Annelies Schaerer Munzker
    … off family in Vienna / Austria. After a care free wonderful childhood my life changed with the end of the Second World War when we lost … Early 1944 I was evacuated with my high school to a mountain side south of Vienna from where we had to flee from the Russian army in … (two class rooms were furnished with cots for homeless girls like me). 1948-50 I went to Switzerland to work as a ‘mother’s helper’ with …