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  • John G. Keith
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  • Keith Walling and Family
    … Keith Walling and Family …
  • Arriving at Halifax Before Pier 21
    … America. However, before 1876, there was no inland rail link, and so the port was not particularly useful for passenger or cargo service … Other ports, notably along the St. Lawrence and in the Great Lakes, had immigration facilities dating back to the 1820s, and were critical … landing facilities, passengers were landed at Cunard’s wharf (just south of Pier 2) and examined at the North End railway station. [7] The …
  • Sobey Wall of Honour Order Form
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  • Josephine Keyzer
    … the event begins just prior to our departure from the Netherlands. Dad had obtained a long-playing record of English lessons for those of us … watching our ‘container’ being lifted onto the boat. The first night out at sea was heavy with fog resulting in a near collision with … in a type of day-care, a large playroom from which we were not free to come and go as someone stood on guard at the door. I believe we talked …
  • Future in Canada by Luke
    … the announcer call my dad name and other people to go to Canada I was so happy. I was so happy that I cried, we all did. On that day when we have to come to Canada I was kind of sad because I won’t be able to play with … have to be really quiet. They finally escaped. Now they said that they will have peace but I’m still worry for people that I know because they …
  • Gabriella Frainetti nee Di Giovanni
    … January 1966 My story started out on January 6, 1966, when myself, my parents, two younger brothers … my parents wanted to give us kids a better way of life than what they had had as young children. When we left I remember leaving early in the … were checked and our luggage was put on board the ship. After a while we said goodbye to our friends and went on board. We were …
  • Immigration from the US - Biographies
    … of 1996, Kit and his wife moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia after he was offered employment with the Nova Scotia Barrister Society to run their bar admission course. Reactions to a War Resister … Columbia where a group of Swarthmore graduates were starting a farming commune. Peter stayed for three years, later moving to Vancouver to …
  • Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP)
    … As a federal Crown Corporation, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is subject to both the Access … use and disclosure. You have the option of submitting a request online, or by letter or email. Requests for information can be made …
  • Reflections on a Green Door I: New Beginnings
    … “I know this door”, the thought was almost overwhelming. Somehow I has been mentally catapulted back in time almost 47 years and my … tried to walk through each door one found that some were easy to open, while others offered resistance. The ‘inside’ of each door had been decorated or modified to bring the visitor into the experience …

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