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    The Pier 21 Story Guided 30-minute tours of Pier 21 are offered in English and French. Tours and movie viewing times available throughout the day. An audio guided tour is available via the NaviLens app . Join our professional Heritage Interpreters for a guided tour of Pier 21. If you are curious …
  • Louw Griet Netty Bob Karel
    … Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: April 11, 1956 Griet and Louw de Vries with Karel, Bob & Netty (Jeannette); Netty and Bob at the …
  • Judith Goldberger and Emery Hartman
    … Hartman, Martin Markus’ friend had the proper departure documents to come to Canada. Instead of going to Canada, Emery had decided to travel …
  • Jean Bowman Courchaine
    Jean Bowman Courchaine …
  • Freerk and Ebeltje Jansma
    Freerk and Ebeltje Jansma (Van Der Laan) from Amsterdam, The Netherlands arrived at Pier 21 on July 12, 1954 aboard the Waterman with their daughter Gerda and son Jan. Geraldine (Gerda) married George Zwaagstra on July 27, 1957. See George S and Geraldine G Zwaagstra > See Sjouke and Anna …
  • Private Walter M. Rocky Thompson
    … Born 1918 in Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba died 1996. The fourth child to John Gillis Thompson and Gudrun Thordis …
  • Ivan Szalai
    … Ivan Szalai arrived at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 23rd, 1967 on the T.S.S. Olympia, which he …
  • Arie and Tiny Bor
    … for Montreal leaving Tiny and the two girls in Holland. Within ten days of arriving in Calgary, Arie had three job offers. He was … Following the immigration process, they boarded a train for a 3-4 day journey to Edmonton. Arie and Tiny Bor have lived in a variety of …
  • Toon and Trees Maas
    … married in a civil ceremony on Oosterhout on September 16, 1952. Two days later Mr and Mrs Mass boarded the Groote Beer in Rotterdam for … officials to move onto Flin Flon Manitoba for employment. At this point Toon, with a railway ticket issued by the Canadian Embassy in the Hague for travel to Dartmouth via TRURO-New Glasgow- Antigonish! Took matters into his own hands and …
  • Assunta, Livia, Lisa e Natale Leardi
    … he agreed to do in exchange for her giving him 1,000 Lire ($1.50) a day so he could buy coffee, cigarettes, and whatever else that amount … remembers all the good food he ate on the ship, and that he spent his days by the pool as they had great weather the entire voyage. They left … pointing to a picture as he could not speak the English language. Two days after arriving in Downsview (now North York, Ontario) to join his …

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