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Lawlor's Island Results …
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In the previous post , I mentioned how Lawlor’s Island is uniquely unknown among Halifax’s harbour islands — it’s overlooked in public discourse and seems to be absent from public memory. We took on a very basic survey of the island to establish what features of the quarantine island still exist. …
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Our family histories are the stories that we decide to repeat and share, editing out the parts that were unclear or unseemly, and over generations those stories become our truths. But what if there was someone who could help decipher family facts from family lore? That is exactly what Cara …
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Child Evacuee, Midwife and CBC Announcer g3 …
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In Search of the Canadian Dream …
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Nick Noorani: Family Man and Social Entrepreneur …
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The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is Canada’s sixth national museum. Our mission is to share the ongoing story of immigration to Canada—past to present and coast to coast to coast. The Museum is located in the Pier 21 national historic site at the Halifax seaport where nearly one …
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Seeking Home, Finding Peace …
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Olympic Dreams Come True …
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Introduction CANADA HAS A LONG AND VARIED HISTORY of people arriving here because they were fleeing war, violence, or persecution. Loyalists, supporters of the British Crown, came to British North America during and after the American Revolution. Around 1900, Doukhobors fleeing religious …