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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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Season 4 of our podcast Countless Journeys is all about food and the people who make it. Ann Hui tells her story in season four, episode 1 of Countless Journeys. Photo courtesy of Ann Hui. It was only when she visited Chinese restaurants in small towns that Ann Hui discovered dishes like chop suey, …
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How a vivid dream and a nearly forgotten history led to a new exhibition Chinese Head Tax Certificate issued to Lee Wing, 1916. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 collection, [R2021.48.6] Artist JJ Lee thought of herself as a second-generation Canadian, her parents having been born in China. …
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In the Museum’s Pier 21 Story exhibition , there is a section called Treasures From Home , with artifacts and props representing what immigrants brought with them as they sailed to Canada. The objects are contained in a large wooden case and include many different objects: a bicycle, a pair of …
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Pier 21 re-opened its doors on July 1, 1999. July 1 of this year marked a special anniversary : 25 years since our building first re-opened its doors as a museum. Pier 21 served as a gateway to Canada from 1928 to 1971. Nearly a million people arrived through the building, disembarking from …
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Courtesy of Jeanne Beker. Many people in Canada and beyond know the name Jeanne Beker, who from 1985 to 2012 hosted Fashion Television , an internationally broadcast television show. Jeanne Beker fondly remembers the sparkled dress and boots she wore for her sweet sixteen. Courtesy of Jeanne Beker. …
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The Thiessen family wearing luggage tags, September 1950, DI2013.848.2. Hundreds of old-fashioned luggage tags adorn two walls in the Museum. They are left by visitors and covered with drawings and handwritten messages in different languages. During Pier 21’s years as an immigration shed, …
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Rafael Alcolado performs at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student at a Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the …
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Shackles like this reproduction, created by a blacksmith at Port Greville, Nova Scotia, were used on enslaved peoples in Canada. Courtesy of Dr. Afua Cooper. An interview with Russell Grosse , Executive Director of the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, on the new exhibition A History Exposed: …