• Migration, Work, Uber Driving: Continuity and Rupture
    By Shehroze Ahmed Shaikh, MA, and Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian Introduction According to the Statistics Canada 2021 Census of Population, there are now several municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area, including Toronto, Brampton, Mississauga, and Markham, where immigrants make up over 40% …
  • 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 …
  • Guided Tours
    The Pier 21 Story Guided 30-minute tours of Pier 21 are offered in English and French. Tours and movie viewing times available throughout the day. An audio guided tour is available via the NaviLens app . Join our professional Heritage Interpreters for a guided tour of Pier 21. If you are curious …
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  • Basket Weaving and Being Welcomed in Mi’kmaki
    “I don't consider myself a basket maker” An interview with artist-in-residence Virick Francis about art-making, finding solutions and what it means to be welcomed by Mi’kmaq. Virick Francis, photo by Isabel Francis Photo. When did you start weaving? In my early teens, I was making big baskets with …
  • An Incomplete Portrait of Canada
    Photographs capture time. They tell fragments of stories. The Museum is full of photographs. In our permanent exhibitions, a huge floor-to-ceiling photograph from 1914 of the passengers of SS Komagata Maru looms over part of our museum- a haunting memory of faces turned away by the racist …
  • Narrow Escapes to Canada
    We sometimes refer to this institution as a museum of stories. Stories of arrivals, of departures, of new beginnings. Among the stories are incredible, and often harrowing, accounts of escape. These are two stories of escape , from different places and time periods. They both ended with a new life …
  • Conciliation and peaceful futures through art
    shalan joudry (pictured onstage) is the author of the the poem Kmɨtkinu, which was adapted into a dance piece with collabotors Sarah Prosper, Susanne Chui, Sara Coffin, Isaac Abriel, Robert Azevedo, I'thandi Munro, Sam Penner and NAT Chantel. Photo by Kevin MacCormack “We are not the only ones …
  • Uncovering secrets of the popular miniature Pier 21 model
    Passengers await their train to destinations across Canada. The model of Pier 21 is full of activity . The miniature representation is a favourite of many visitors of the Museum . The model, roughly 8 feet by 4 feet, depicts a day in the mid to late 1950s, during the period when the building was …
  • “The only way to be safe is to leave the country.”
    Roger LeMoyne (left) and Darren Ell (right). Interview with photographer Darren Ell. Darren’s work, along with the work of fellow photographer Roger LeMoyne, is the basis of Crossing Lines: A New Age of Immigration , a beautiful and haunting exhibition currently on display at the Museum until March …