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  • Maria Teresa DiGiandomenico
    … Italy and made our way to Naples. We were filled with excitement but also scared as we had never travelled so far from home. My father, Franco, left Italy in 1953 for Brazil in order to work in the construction industry to make enough money so that …
  • Katarina Marinic - 2019 Artist-in-Residence
    … The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is delighted to welcome Katarina Marinic as Artist-in-Residence for 2019. Katarina’s work … The accessibility and ease of taking photographs and sharing them online has shaped how we express ideas of family, place, and community… … Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Telephone: (902) 425-7770 ext. 264 C : (902) 430-3986  bhouston-gilfoy@pier21.ca …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2025
    … year. July 1, 2024 marked 25 years since we opened our doors,  welcoming visitors to the National Historic site that would become today’s … our physical location, our podcasts had over 64,000 downloads, our new online history timeline received over 125,000 clicks, and we hosted 30 … concluded its run here at the Museum in January, and in April of 2026, travels to the Joseph Brandt Museum in Burlington, Ontario, the …
  • Zbigniew and Stefania Sauter
    … we lost our precious freedom. My family was separated and we never again had the chance to be together. I spent five dreadful war years in my country, … Shortly before the war ended, I found myself in Germany against my will. The end of the war didn't bring freedom to my country as I had …
  • Ivan and Anna Zadan
    … As the gates of the forced labour camps were flung open, Ivan walked out and quickly gathered his family. It was 3 years earlier that the … Zadan family were placed in forced labour camps in Linz, Austria. They had been taken out of Ukraine by the advancing German Army, placed in … to live together. Everything changed on May 8 th 1945, World War II had come to an end in Europe. A cease fire order was in place, and the …
  • Vice-Admiral Douglas S. Boyle
    … Revelstoke, British Columbia. His middle name, prophetic as it turned out to be, was his mother’s family name. Susan Ann Dorothy and Allan Douglas Boyle, his parents, had immigrated to Canada from England and settled in Revelstoke just … hero. This led him (without his parents’ knowledge) to write off to the fledgling Canadian Navy to enquire about becoming a sailor. …
  • Francesco and Rosaria
    … Francesco Natoli's Story This story is written by Francesco's eldest daughter Mary … in Sicily and my mother Rosaria Capobianco was born in a small town in southern Italy. They met during the war in Naples where he was in the … moved back to my mother's small town and lived with her parents. They had 4 children within 5 years. It was a struggle to earn enough money …
  • "Might Be the Best of the Lot": Baltic Refugees, Canadian Immigration Policy and the Arrival of SS Walnut
    … Walnut ’s passengers helped to alter Canadian immigration policy and how Canadian officials processed new arrivals. Canadian Postwar … Immigrants Shortly after the Second World War, Canadian officials had their preferences in terms of immigrants to Canada. High … war-ravaged Europe. In July 1946, the federal government passed an Order-in-Council permitting approximately 3,000 Polish Free Army …
  • Cookbooks, Cultural Connections, And Migration
    … The I Never Cooked Before Cookbook. I still have it…it tells you how to break an egg and separate the yolk from the white, how to tell when an egg’s hard boiled or soft boiled. It’s very good. Anyway, so, I bought an umbrella because I didn’t have an umbrella. And some …
  • Stanley Sape Vander Meulen
    … Stanley Vander Meulen was born Sape Vander Muelen on 26 January 1933 in Driesum, a rural village in Friesland, a province of … of skilled carpenters, specialized in house design and construction as well as cabinetry. Jacob provided hands-on training in those trades while the young Sape took more formal instruction in drafting and …

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