• Interpretation Guidelines and Resources for A History Exposed
    … installing and maintaining the exhibition. Exhibition Questions If you have any questions, please contact: Julie Martin, Assistant Curator …
  • History Detectives Program
    … Ideal For: Ages 10 - 15 Maximum number of participants: 30 How do we learn … the past? How do historians unravel history? In this workshop students will take on the role of history detectives, using artefacts and documents as they work collaboratively to unravel an immigration case study from Canada’s rich past. Do you have what it …
  • Isolino Quattrin
    … Came over to make a better life for myself and Canada was my first choice. It was quite an experience for me to travel from the East Coast out to the West Coast (Fernie, BC). As …
  • The Juozas Dubauskas Family
    … My father, mother and 4 children arrived in 1949 as war refugees to … the beauty and the way of life this wonderful country has given me. By Rutelle Bembridge nee Dubauskas (daughter) …
  • Jan and Tjerkje Terpstra
    … Imkje Amy Pribac is my sister and she was 8 years old at the time. Our brother, her twin …
  • Lance Cpl Edmund Clayton Hubbard
    … Lc/Cpl Hubbard was born in Cassilis, New Brunswick on May 11, 1920, the son of William A. Hubbard and May M. Fisher Hubbard of Long Reach, New Brunswick. He married Marjory …
  • Riccardo Cacciotti
    … born in Carpineto, Romano Italy on January 1, 1952. He left Naples on May 21, 1952 at the age of four months with his father Florimondo and … Halifax on the Conte Biancamano. He arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax on May 31, 1952. Riccardo Cacciotti lives in Sudbury, Ontario. …
  • Margaret Jeffs and son William
    … My mother, Margaret E. Jeffs, and myself, William A. Jeffs, left Liverpool on Letitia on June 17th, 1946 … 21. Then we travelled by train to Vancouver where we still live today. My father was a Canadian who joined the RAF prior to the war, but was …
  • Florence Aronoff
    … I remember as a young person I was aware that my mother was a volunteer with JIAS in the mid-thirties-she would go to … herself entered America in New York through Ellis Island in 1909 and my father entered Canada as a young boy through St. John I believe. …
  • Julius and Katharine Stollar
    … My Dad arrived alone in Halifax On June 10, 1929 on the Megantic. It was 1935 before my mother could join him in Canada (Raymore, Saskatchewan). She arrived …