• Learn from Life in Canada by Lily
    … Time 0:04:22 Transcript When people ask me about my immigration story, the first picture that comes into my mind is the snowstorm. It was January 2010, my first trip … Learn from Life in Canada by Lily …
  • CSM Donald Thomas Whitfield
    … ½ May 1945 “A” Company made a night attack to cross the railway line south of Bad Zwischenahn. Sergeant Whitfield and ten other ranks formed …
  • Cor Groenewegen
    … to Ontario. The first village they landed in was Formosa, a village south of Walkerton. In the mean time, Cor & Nico were living in …
  • Fleischer, Henny Karin Kaethe Eugen
    … strolling along the streets enjoying my first experience in a western city, I was accosted by a British service policeman. He, finding me … across Germany to Landau. On arrival there I received a royal welcome from the lady of the place where I was to work, who then promptly … born, I was forced to leave my job. As our financial situation had become rather precarious, particularly as I was again pregnant, I …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … Explore the timeline at timeline.pier21.ca Attention history nerds: Clear your next several hours. There are thousands of years of history … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of …
  • Nicolangelo Romano
    … spent the entire journey suffering sea sickness arriving in New York City in 1956. Mary lived in the Bronx and officially became an American …
  • Petronella Van Luxemburg Seiferling
    … farm near Sedley, Saskatchewan in 1920, enlisted in the army with the South Alberta Regiment in 1939. He was stationed in Holland, and met …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … Explore the timeline at timeline.pier21.ca Attention history nerds: Clear your next several hours. There are thousands of years of history … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of …
  • Why isn’t it called “Japantown”?
    … Canada (2023). Source: Library and Archives Canada/RG18, vol. 3567, file c315-36-3. Page 119/136 Many Canadian cities have a Chinatown. There … owned by Chinese and Japanese Canadians were smashed. Still, the community continued to deepen its roots, not only in Vancouver but … Why isn’t it called “Japantown”? …
  • Why isn’t it called “Japantown”?
    … Canada (2023). Source: Library and Archives Canada/RG18, vol. 3567, file c315-36-3. Page 119/136 Many Canadian cities have a Chinatown. There … owned by Chinese and Japanese Canadians were smashed. Still, the community continued to deepen its roots, not only in Vancouver but … Why isn’t it called “Japantown”? …