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… be a “look and read” type of museum. In the Pier 21 exhibition and Canadian Immigration Hall, there are places for people to touch, sit, smell, put stuff together, and take stuff apart. Visitors can pack a suitcase, decorate a suitcase, add a patch to a virtual … _____? “I would have appreciated some info about Mennonites coming to Canada not just leaving for Mexico.” Comment Card 239 “It would be …
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… And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, … preservation and its loss- is meaningful to Lee. Last year, her mother died; her father’s memories were becoming harder to access because of … “Since the time I found the objects and moved my parents out, my mom died. Now my father is in palliative care. Working on this show is very …
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… we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can … because i believe in the power of healing and i believe in peaceful futures. When did you write it? After the Truth and Reconciliation of … My message about this landscape, the history and my hope for the future, is what carries me into the next iterations. Why did the …
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… And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, … preservation and its loss- is meaningful to Lee. Last year, her mother died; her father’s memories were becoming harder to access because of … “Since the time I found the objects and moved my parents out, my mom died. Now my father is in palliative care. Working on this show is very …
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… the mouth of the Wolastoq River. As part of the Pierre Du Gua, Sieur de Monts expedition, Samuel de Champlain “discovered” the river and … and German immigrants until the American Revolution. In 1775, Portland Point, at the mouth of the St. John River, only had about 140 …
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… Exhibition is the Museum’s summer 2014 exhibit, brought to us by the Canadian War Museum. It is a glowing success, attracting about 6,000 … people have contributed so far, and the number continues to grow every day. The folks at the Canadian War Museum really knew what they were doing when they designed …
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… about working in the Scotiabank Family History Centre (SHFC) at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is that every interaction is … But as diverse as our genealogy research can be, one thing that comes up constantly is the regret that people didn’t ask their family members about their lives and stories when they had the chance. Too often we take our loved ones for granted, or forget that …
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… slaves were brought to the French stronghold at Île Royale in present day Cape Breton, while additional numbers of slaves arrived between … shut down in 1816 after a significant decrease in Black migration. Today it is the site of the Armdale Yacht Club. 1815-1816 – Refugees …