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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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Every visitor who enters the Scotiabank Family History Centre is greeted by a knowledgeable and experienced staff member ready to help them with their research. But responses staff often hear run the gamut from “oh, I was just curious, but I don’t think I have enough information” to “they arrived …
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Photo courtesy of Joy Bullen. Joy Bullen didn’t start out as a music impresario . “My formal working life was with TD Bank,” where, she says, “I had many different and varied roles.” But what moved her most was art, culture, and music. “I started looking at the nonprofit world,” recalls Joy. "I can …
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The Scotiabank Family History Centre no longer offers online services, but all previously submitted requests will be answered. We provide in-person research services for people who are able to visit the Museum. Our staff use a variety of internal and external sources to locate immigration records, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian For over a century, Canadian immigration authorities have used language proficiency as a point of consideration in deciding whether a migrant is admissible to Canada. [1] This is not generally a controversial aspect of current Canadian immigration policy, but when …