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… In Family Remembrance I wish to thank the Pier 21 Society for providing … of their courageous and ambitious decision to begin a new life far away from their native Italy through the great adventure of immigration. … in my heart. In the wake of the great wave of immigration that followed the Second World War, they have decided to embark in a long process …
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… The migration of the New England Planters was the first significant migration to the Atlantic colonies in British North America. In … of the Acadians in 1755, newly cultivated lands opened up in Nova Scotia, which needed to be populated. Roughly eight thousand men … of Nova Scotia, and in the Upper St. John River Valley of present-day New Brunswick, between 1759 and 1768. They left a legacy that can …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 15, 2020) Introduction: Canadian Customs before and after the Second World War In May 2015, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 opened new … history of immigration to Canada. This blog is based on research that informs these new exhibits. Interwar immigrants coming to Canada often …
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… sailed alone, a sole pioneer in search of a good and meaningful life. We admire her courage and optimism. Having no friends, no family, no … a very few words in English, she patiently and tirelessly made her way across Canada, finally settling in Vancouver, B.C. With her dogged …
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… events? Ethical Dimension of Historical Interpretations Today, we are going to discuss the sixth concept presented in the Historical … controversial historical events and must understand the difference between what they know to be common ethical ground in contemporary society … events of the past. The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 is a powerful symbol of racial discrimination and exclusion . The Act became …
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… year old son and our 6th month old second son. The baby fell asleep as we approached the entrance to Halifax harbour, and I refused to … until he woke up, as he was overtired and needed his sleep. So we waited. Everyone had long left the vessel and Peter had loaded all …
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… 21. And so that means that I give tours, in English and French, and we also do all kinds of other little duties. So we sell the tickets and we, give people maps and let them know what’s going on in the museum. As for doing the art, that’s something that I always like to do on my own. I decided to study history, but keep art for …
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… mother, father, brother and I, arrived in Halifax in Feb. 16, 1957. We sailed on the MV Britannic from Liverpool, having arrived there from a refugee camp in Austria. We had escaped from Hungary in Dec. 1956, following the unsuccessful …
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… the ship and then I proceeded. Now I had built models before but they were usually from a kit. This was my first scratch-built model. Everything on this model is built by hand. It didn’t come out of a box. It took me, approximately, about 800 hours over a twelve month period to get her the way she is right now. I was using pictures of the interior and the …
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… March of 1963. “I spoke to my dad and he thinks it was around 3 to 4 weeks that we were there,” Mike recalled. “The brick walls and the bars on the … Mike’s sister Carrie made a full recovery and they were soon on their way to Toronto. What rings the most true for me in Mike’s recollection …