• Who is that giant bear?
    Fenton poses with a family during the Museum’s Canada Day celebrations. Visitors to Canada Day and other special celebrations at the Museum are likely to see a giant teddy bear wearing a black hat that says “Immigration.” Kids (and kids at heart) always seem to want to give the big bear a hug, pose …
  • Corporal Alderice John Daigle
    Corporal Alderice John Daigle …
  • 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 Ngarboui couldn’t have known that his desire for affordable and familiar produce would turn into a project that produces 50,000 pounds of food per year and feeds hundreds of families and revitalizes a …
  • What is Canadian Food, Anyway?
    If it's true that “you are what you eat,” then Canada is both diverse and delicious. Generation after generation of newcomers have brought new recipes, ingredients and approaches, while Indigenous cooks have kept old food traditions alive and created new ones. Our country’s professional chefs and …
  • Perfectly Delicious
    Lobster dip with ka’ak al-Quds, the first recipe created by the Museum’s Perfect Pairings program. Photo by Lumi Studios. Have you noticed that we at the Museum are a little obsessed with food these days? There’s a few reasons for that. Firstly, we’re cooking up a new exhibition about food called …
  • “The New Canadian Curling Club” Sweeps Away Myths About Immigrants
    Zaynna Khalife, Ardavan Taraporewala, Linette Doherty and Howard Dai in The New Canadian Curling Club . Photo by @stoometzphoto   For a lot of people, curling is a mystery . It doesn’t look very athletically demanding, and yet - as many Canadians have discovered while flipping through TV channels - …
  • Sobey Wall of Honour
    "Buon Compleanno, Papà! … On your 70th birthday, we gift you this permanent space on the wall at Pier 21 to honour not only your journey here, but all your many contributions in making Canada a better place to live." — Calla Family Commemorative Plaque Dedicate a special anniversary or honour …
  • Legacy Gift
    Your Story. Canada's Story. Telling our stories preserves our history. A gift in your Will preserves Canada’s immigration stories, forever. Here are two stories from caring and compassionate Canadians like you who have taken the step of remembering Pier 21 in their Will. Frances Swyripa “The last …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …