• John Brian Sharples
    … you didn't have to do too much fancy footwork but merely slid from side to side as the boat lurched on its way! We spent a day or two in … dirt accumulated on the store windows along the waterfront. My trips inside the stores were a disaster as I could not understand what the …
  • Morris Josef Haugg
    … I am a Pier 21 Alumni and I am pleased to say also a current member. I have been reluctant to tell my Pier 21 … parts of Canada. My story is a little different. Not only did I come a different way, (by train) and from a different direction (from … and I was processed by Canada Immigration on May 10th, 1960, in Quebec City early in the morning. My ticket was good to Montreal so I went …
  • Alfred and Melitta Kaefer
    Melitta and Alfred Starke - 1960 Starke Family - 1977 Melitta Starke and Grandchildren - 2002 Melitta Kaefer Starke - 1953 Melitta Starke and Grandchildren …
  • Flight Lt. O. Ross Down
    … Flight Lieutenant Orland Ross Down (1922-2009) The late Orland Ross Down passed through Pier 21 four times between 1941 … young man from Charlottetown who joined the RCAF in 1940, trained in Canada as a wireless-operator/air-gunner and left for overseas from … Africa, Flt/Sgt. Down was posted back to the UK by way of the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope. In Cape Town the airmen …
  • Chairuth Bouphaphanh
    … into Canada life the first day we landed, so. Biography: Chairuth (Chai) Bouphaphanh was born in Vientiane, Laos in 1967. Chai and his …
  • F/Lt Knowles E. Crosby
    … to Knowles Crosby, D.F.M., award won June 16, 1942, Knowles at the time was a 22-year-old Wireless-operator, Air-gunner and won the … a medium two-engined bombing aircraft. With the whole of the underside of their machine ablaze, and the pilot, Flight Sergeant Swanson of … first aid to the badly wounded second pilot. Crosby returned to his shot-up radio and endeavoured to send out an S.O.S. Though his …
  • Why Kids Should Play in the Museum
    … grade 3 class is enjoying one of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions called Kids Celebrate! They are in their school uniforms. The exhibition focuses on … Christmas to Diwali to Carnival, each is a day or a period of time celebrated by kids and families in Canada. For each of the celebrations, …
  • Why Kids Should Play in the Museum
    … grade 3 class is enjoying one of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions called Kids Celebrate! They are in their school uniforms. The exhibition focuses on … Christmas to Diwali to Carnival, each is a day or a period of time celebrated by kids and families in Canada. For each of the celebrations, …
  • Through a Child's Eyes by Rose
    … very mixed. I was excited to be on a ship but I saw so many sad people that I was confused. I remember people crying hard and waving … whenever anyone needed to go some place where they only spoke Inglese. Whether it was going shopping, to the doctor’s office or needing … and am proud to have dual citizenship. My parents made sacrifices to come to Canada and I am thankful. Return to Sault Ste. Marie …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    … Sketch of the Woodside Tavern by Mary Louise Doyle. Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern is a simple building in the parking lot … of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be … band Skullocybin. The front entrance is wallpapered with posters from past gigs, attesting to the number and variety of acts the bar has …