• Len, Jane Streng
    … a daycare unit which entertained six of the children for part of the day. Tony and Len, however, were considered too old for daycare, so … from the control room to the lifeboats to the engine room. The food was great. There was plenty of Dutch food and treats plus lots of food they had never tasted. On May 29, …
  • Mary, Beth, Jane, John, Jack Streng
    … John (5), Jane (7) Front: Jack (2) My parents 50th Anniversary 1986 Top from L to R - Len, John, Mom and Dad, Tony, Jack Bottom from L to R …
  • Digital Preservation in the Collection
    … Preservation is a way of keeping digital material alive so that they can be accessed long into the future, even as the technological tools … our catalogue to improve full-text searching ii . We have also been scanning some beautiful hand-written stories from the filing cabinets. … copy v , with a lower resolution JPEG as the access copy vi that you can view on the Image search page . This means we preserve the best …
  • Volunteers at the Pier
    … Writer Published on 01/12/2021 December 5 is International Volunteer day. This is the story of a connected chain of volunteers who have served at the Canadian Museum of … regardless of their religion, she and her husband Morris, who owned a food service business, donated boxes of food to the new arrivals. One …
  • Bill Shaw, wife Kaye and Family
    … arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the Georgic on April 26, 1952 on Kevin's first birthday. We sailed from Southampton on April 19, 1952. Our Mum was quite … that Mum was not sick then but seasoned sailors were. We saw food that we had never seen like corn on the cob and fruits not common …
  • Helena Lengacher
    … Lengacher, April 2016 I was born September 6, 1920, in Waterland-Oudeman situated in Oost-Vlanderan, Belgium to the proud parents of Rene … War II, German forces invaded my country on May 10, 1940. In just 18 days of fierce fighting, the Belgium military was pushed back into a … thinking to myself, why me, why am I to live when others would die? By early September 1944 the fighting seemed to escalate to a level …
  • Eminently Suitable for Our Purposes: Official Commemoration of Immigrant Arrivals in Canada, 1949-1972
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian … “Canada’s 50,000th DP Starts New Life in New Home,” Globe and Mail , 26 February 1949, 17. Oral History with Ausma Levalds Rowberry, … and Mail , 12 January 1954, 15. “Missing Millionth,” Globe and Mail , 26 May 1954, 6. “Missing Millionth.” Badgley, “As Long as He is an …
  • Why Kids Should Play in the Museum
    … added bits from the Halloween section of the exhibit. Three are in toy helmets. One wears a green army helmet. Another is in a black … game or at least that they’ve made up a game to play with the wooden toy. A great place to learn Kids can find ways to play almost anywhere. …
  • Janos Maté
    … the Czechoslovak Republic, whose birthday happened be on the very same day. Following the Munich Pact between British Prime Minister Neville … we asked father if we would have to go to school the next day. "Of course," he replied. Early next morning, father got ready to …
  • Why Kids Should Play in the Museum
    … added bits from the Halloween section of the exhibit. Three are in toy helmets. One wears a green army helmet. Another is in a black … game or at least that they’ve made up a game to play with the wooden toy. A great place to learn Kids can find ways to play almost anywhere. …