-
… attracting high-profile visitors including the Prime Minister of the day, Sir Robert Borden. [2] Undertaken in 1915, just after the outbreak …
-
… My Story by Pompilio De Francesco I was born in a little town in Italy called Guardiaregia, … townspeople and the rumble of the war planes that filled the sky every day echoed in my head. My grandfathers had travelled to North America … they had made mistakes in North America and in their return to Italy. We were brainwashed by Mussolini's propaganda. We were told that Italy …
-
… America (i.e. United Province of Canada (Canada West and Canada East), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick)) numbered some 200,000 individuals. By … opportunities than at home. By the 1830s, the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Upper Canada … become the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Approximately 70 percent of this movement of Irish were of …
-
… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 9, 2020) In May 2015, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 opened a new exhibition on … precedents, and public opinion. As a result, an individual’s desire to come to Canada is only one of many factors that determine immigration. … Canadian immigration policy and local official discretion at Canadian points of entry? Canadian immigration officials consider many factors …
-
… became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be traced back to the early interwar period. Against the backdrop … Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972 …
-
… Time 0:03:12 Transcript I never thought I would say “No” to come to Canada until the day I actually had to leave my country. As a kid I always wanted to come to a western country, where kids had their own bedrooms and where … because we had to flee. We hid in a truck which delivers food to soldiers in the borders and we started our journey. When we got to the …
-
… in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, the eldest of nine children. My parents were of German stock and nationality. In 1935, during the Depression, … only for weddings and funerals, but their moral standards were as high as anybody’s. Further down, the “Bahnhofstrasse” was the Catholic …
-
… Pier 21 and an historic moment at what would become the gateway to Canada for nearly one million immigrants over the next 43 years. One of … Pier 21: A History , staff carefully transcribed the names, dates, points of departure and other information from the hand-written manifest. Now we are sending it out into the world to find connections and share the …
-
… old when I left "Italia" from the port of Napoli on July 15,1956. Why I left my country of birth? It all began in 1942 when my father and … was 12 years olf and the youngest was 4 years old. My early years were spent going from the orphanage to work on the family farm when I … kids. We had no future, with the small farm and lack of jobs. At this point my aunt received a letter from a cousin in Northern Ontario, …