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Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
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  • The Reunion
    A man drives down Terminal Road towards Pier 21. He is wearing a blue shirt; next to him his wife holds a bouquet of flowers. He is nervous and excited. He is coming home in a sense and he cannot stop thinking about what brought him to Pier 21 the first time, all that had happened before and all …
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  • Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946
    The Canadian Citizenship Act came into effect on 1 January 1947 under the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The act established Canadian citizenship as a distinct category and allowed residents of Canada to obtain citizenship regardless of their country of origin. [1] Prior …
  • There's more to this book than recipes
    Rebecca Teitelbaum's recipe book contains 110 pages of recipes collected in a concentration camp. (Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre Collection, 99.008.001b)   The special exhibition eat make share: a taste of immigration ends its run at the Museum in January, before travelling to locations …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, that question is probably impossible to answer. Lots of foods have fascinating and complex histories. But …
  • 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 to learn about on the Museum’s new digital timeline ! The timeline is full of information about the histories of peoples in the lands we now know as Canada, and …
  • A Welcome Sign?
    Cartoon published July 1, 1999. (Material republished with the express permission of: PNI Maritimes LP, by its general partner, PNI Maritimes GP Inc.) At the end of this month, 2024 will be over. This has been a milestone year for the Museum. 2024 marked 25 years since Pier 21 reopened to the …
  • Peace – The Exhibition
    May 16 to October 20, 2014 and May 5 - June 7, 2015 Peace – The Exhibition , a travelling exhibition developed by the Canadian War Museum and adapted by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, vividly illustrates the rich diversity of Canadians’ choices and actions for peace, and how these …

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