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  • Two Ways to Dig into the History of the Black Battalion (1916-1920)
    By Anthony Black, Senior Writer Published on 01/02/2022 Credit: Courtesy of Esther Clark Wright Archives at Acadia University The world nearly forgot the existence of No. 2 Construction Battalion, a military unit made up of Black men determined to serve their country during the First World War. …
  • #HopeAndHealingCanada
    December 2023 to December 2025 Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers has created an artistic intervention, currently on display in the Canadian Immigration Story exhibition. “Since July 2021, I have created over 100 installations at residential school historical sites, museums, art galleries and other …
  • Ship Arrival Database
    Search passenger ships calling at Pier 21 in Halifax from 1928-1971. Dates are scheduled arrival dates, so they are occasionally off by a day or two if the ship arrived early or late. Please note, the database is incomplete . The source material for 1960 and 1962-1966 was damaged or missing. Some …
  • Add Your Story to the Virtual Sobey Wall of Honour
    Guidelines for Stories Word limit: 500 – 750 words Photo limit: 4 (high resolution) Stories cannot include logos, promotion, or links The Museum reserves the right to make small edits, and may redact any personally identifying information before publishing online Stories cannot be changed once …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2025
    Time 00:17:02 Transcript Promotional Video ... Cynthia Price Verreault, Chairperson Bonjour, hello, I'm Cynthia Price Verreault, Chair of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. (Translated from French) I’m speaking to you from Pier 21, located in Mi’kmaki, the unceded ancestral and …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2024
    Time 00:20:51 Words on screen: Annual Public Meeting 2023 Transcript Promotional Video We came from Ecuador with a bag full of dreams. I grew up in Donegal in Ireland. I came to Toronto by myself. We came from Turkey to have a better life for our kids. From Syria in 1908. I am from Burundi. I came …

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