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  • eat make share: a taste of immigration
    May 10, 2025–January 18, 2026 Recipes eat make share Perfect Pairings Canada’s food is as diverse as its people. How and what we eat is shaped by over 400 years of immigration and relationships between newcomers and Indigenous Peoples. Food connects us to the past, to place, and to each other. …
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    Mandate The Museums Act establishes the Mandate of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21: The purpose of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is to explore the theme of immigration to Canada in order to enhance public understanding of the experiences of immigrants as they arrived …
  • Soft Landing
    Seven beautifully crafted one-minute films about the impact newcomers had on Canada and the impact Canada had on them. From Jamaica , Stephanie builds connections between people of African descent and Northern Inuit communities.  Described Video From Ghana , Margaret created and manages more than …
  • They Lived Next Door to a Dictator
    Neighbours to the "Butcher” Idi Amin earned the nickname “The Butcher of Uganda” for atrocities committed under his presidency, including the killing of as many as 500,000 people. In 1969, two years before seizing power in a coup d’état, Amin was commander of the country’s armed forces. Usha and …
  • The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada
    32 pairs of children’s shoes, cast in bronze, dot a 165 km trail in Ireland known as the National Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by twelve-year-old Daniel Tighe and 1,489 others, two-thirds of them children . Suffering from famine and in dispute with their English …

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