• Borders, Groups, Statistics: Researching Immigrant Arrival at Pier 21
    … no longer exists? While the Scotiabank Family History Centre at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 does not hold copies of all … records on microfilm , and information on all ports of entry into Canada. There remain some misconceptions about the nature of these … or port of entry lists. Form 30 replaced land entry lists and Form 30A was used for ocean arrivals. However, in 1925 the passenger lists …
  • Order-in- Council PC 1931-695, 1931
    … Includes: Order-in-Council PC 1923-183 (31 January 1923), Order-in-Council PC 1930-1957 (14 August 1930) With the passage of Order-in-Council PC … restrictive policies introduced by the governor-in-council (i.e. federal cabinet) following the First World War. The expansive … Order-in- Council PC 1931-695, 1931 …
  • Bill,Eva,George,Tom,Mae
    … Vasilissa Friederiki) on May 18th, 1956 from Piraeus, Greece. Eva said that George and Tom caused a lot of trouble. They played with the … know how to explain herself if that happened. George and Tom gave Eva “a hell of a time.” Eva and Bill, as did many others, desired to come to Canada for a better life. The news on the radio and newspaper …
  • Nancy Belle Archibald
    … Mrs. Nancy Archibald, a War Bride, lives in Victoria BC. In August 2011, she celebrated her 90th birthday as well as the 65th anniversary of her arrival in Canada at Pier … warm day for traveling and we were getting stiff with sitting so long. (I forgot to mention that three other wives traveled with us from …
  • He Just Wanted Better Veggies—Now Hundreds Are Growing Their Own
    … Raymond, with two members of the Rainbow Community Garden. Contributed by Raymond Ngarboui Raymond … hundreds of families and revitalizes a troubled downtown park. What he knew was that his favourite foods from back home were hard to access, expensive, and didn’t taste right. Raymond is one of the guests on Season Six of the Museum’s Podcast, Countless Journeys . …
  • He Just Wanted Better Veggies—Now Hundreds Are Growing Their Own
    … Raymond, with two members of the Rainbow Community Garden. Contributed by Raymond Ngarboui Raymond … hundreds of families and revitalizes a troubled downtown park. What he knew was that his favourite foods from back home were hard to access, expensive, and didn’t taste right. Raymond is one of the guests on Season Six of the Museum’s Podcast, Countless Journeys . …
  • Phyllis Danroth
    … on March 31, 1926 in Woking, Surrey, England as Phyllis Irene West. Her parents were Robert and Beatrice West. She had 5 brothers and 4 … the High Church of England, where she would go to church every Wednesday and twice on Sundays. After finishing school at age 16, she went to … though it was called English. Phyllis had lived all her life in the city; but now had to learn how to live in a very rural, isolated …
  • Kinship, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Canadian Immigration History
    … Historian (Updated January 13, 2022) “I think a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen children, is good quality.” [1] This quote from Sir Clifford Sifton, the Canadian …
  • Do Business With Us
    … internal policies. Procurement must support the Museum’s mandate as set out in the Museums Act . To find out more about doing business with …
  • Oral History
    … interviews for research purposes, they’re also used on the Museum’s website and eventually the entire collection will be available online. …