• Volunteers at the Pier
    … fleeing the increasing hostility of the Nazis in Danzig (then a Free City located in the corridor between Germany and Poland). Echt’s … When in 1948, the Mayor of Halifax appointed Fineberg to be the city’s official greeter at Pier 21, (a role she undertook on a volunteer …
  • Margaret Van Toen
    … MRS. GOLDBLOOM Now, let's head over to the Resource Centre where you can look up more information about your own family's trip. There are … to help you. The students leave via stage left. Meanwhile on the other side of stage, an official points towards the Immigration area to where another …
  • Share Your Story Guide
    … Download the Story Guide Your immigration story is part of what defines us as a country. This is why we want to learn … of Origin What was your life like in your country of origin? Family Schooling Play Work Spirituality/Religion Were you affected by any … shortages? How did this affect your daily activities? How was your community affected by the conflict? Do you remember the conflict coming …
  • Flight Lt. O. Ross Down
    … Flight Lieutenant Orland Ross Down (1922-2009) The late Orland Ross Down passed through Pier 21 four times between 1941 … young man from Charlottetown who joined the RCAF in 1940, trained in Canada as a wireless-operator/air-gunner and left for overseas from …
  • The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885
    … to temporarily leave the country to register with an immigration official prior to their departure. The implementation of the duty only …
  • Family Stories with Irish Roots: Remembering the Great Famine
    … . Originally published in The Illustrated London News , 6 th July 1850. Credit: RTE ‘Black 47', simply a word and number, however it … of Ireland’s potato crops (1845 – 1852) led to the death of over one million people and saw one of the most devastating migration crises in … he could save the money to put himself through medical school. After becoming a doctor, he travelled to England in 1914 for further studies. …
  • Anything to Declare? Part 1 - Immigration and Customs since Confederation
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 2, 2020) Introduction Travellers approaching … or French. [3] In recalling his forty years as a Canadian customs official, J. Earl Donnan notes that during the 1930s travellers had …
  • P/O Rear Gunner Les Gallant
    … Officer-Rear Gunner GALLANT, P/O Joseph Ulysse Edmond - Distinguished Flying Cross - No.432 Squadron – Ulysse Gallant, fondly known to his friends and family as ‘Les’, was born in Moncton New Brunswick in …
  • History
    … Italians were considered ill-suited to the pioneering lifestyle. Official immigration policy was aimed at settling farmland on the … War Measures Act , approximately 31,000 Italians living in Canada were officially classified as enemy aliens. Italians and other “enemy … salami, and sausages, only to have them confiscated by immigration officials. Once immigrants landed in Canada and were processed by …