-
… "Buon Compleanno, Papà! … On your 70th birthday, we gift you this permanent space on the wall at Pier 21 to honour not …
-
… I met my "husband to be," Albin Carl Norlander outside the YMCA in Sheffield whilst he was … for Ortona proving to be one of the tougher fights. During this time we exchange many airmail letters and he sent me the money to buy an engagement ring. Early in April of 1945, without warning, he …
-
… Born in Kortenhoef on December 12, 1929 to Cornelia Maria van Wijk-Goes and … boarded a train to join her husband-to-be in Ottawa where they were married within one month of arrival in Canada. Following marriage, … he was sponsored by a Canadian citizen to work on a farm near Barry's Bay. After he had worked there for about one year and had fulfilled all …
-
… In the Museum’s Pier 21 Story exhibition of the Museum, there is a … transfer the wealth they’d accumulated to their new home? One of the options for bringing personal wealth with you to Canada was to bring … offered the choice of bringing your possessions or of having money to buy all new things, which would you choose? Bringing familiar objects …
-
… Angelo Di Placido's story I was born in 1947 in the region of Molise, Italy. Post WW2 things were pretty … throughout the Atlantic Ocean was not pleasant, I was sea sick all the way. On January 17, 1968 the ship docked in Halifax. When I disembarked … while waiting to be processed by the port authorities, I went to buy some bread and ham in order to make myself a sandwich, the bread …
-
… In the Museum’s Pier 21 Story exhibition , there is a section called … transfer the wealth they’d accumulated to their new home? One of the options for bringing personal wealth with you to Canada was to bring … offered the choice of bringing your possessions or of having money to buy all new things, which would you choose? Bringing familiar objects …
-
… vol. 3567, file c315-36-3. Page 119/136 Many Canadian cities have a Chinatown. There are neighbourhoods called Greektown, Little Italy and … sentiment, they put down roots, started businesses and saved to buy land and establish their families. Why isn’t it universally known … or be put onto a boat to be sent permanently back to Japan. Some accepted exile. Some moved east. Few returned. The Powell Street area was …
-
… also known as fry bread, always starts a conversation. It usually involves a critique of other people’s bannock and detailed accounts of … that bannock has a place in Indigenous cuisine, since it’s a food adopted from early European contact, and the ingredients include processed … tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine is her third book. Excerpted from tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine by Shane M. Chartrand …
-
… the ocean was not a smooth one. At one point, traveling across the Bay of Bisque, the waves were so rough and high, Fred remembers hearing the propeller out of the water as the boat was tossed up and down like a toy. Many were seasick, even many of the crew, and Fred remembers having to bring …
-
… "But Why Would You Leave the Boston States?" This was a question I came to expect in the … 1970’s when I met new people in communities around St. Margaret’s Bay where I have lived for most of my life. In our tours of the Pier 21 section of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 we talk about the "pushes and pulls" of immigration—those factors that …