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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) Introduction From 1928 to 1971, Pier 21 was an active Canadian ocean immigration facility. Nearly one million individuals including immigrants, refugees, war brides, and evacuee children came through its halls before setting out across the …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) Introduction Welcome to my first blog here at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21! I’d like to share a bit of our collection with you today. After searching for interesting historical tidbits, I came across a few children’s ship and …
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Pier Perspectives Blog …
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(Gurpreet, put video on Vimeo and embed here. Like you did for Digital StoryTelling) Time 0:01:49 Transcript: So, it was very, if I were to sum up my childhood, I would say it was a very comfortable, safe, solid childhood where I had the opportunities and resources to do well at school, to have …
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Facing Deportation: The Curious Cases of Rebecca Barnett and Rebecca Grizzle …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) In summer of 2012, I visited Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa to conduct archival research for the historical context component of our temporary exhibition Position As Desired / Exploring African Canadian Identity , featured from 22 …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 22, 2020) Introduction Before the arrival of Europeans, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) nations were the primary inhabitants along the St. Lawrence River (known in Mohawk as Kaniatarowanenneh , meaning “big waterway”) and the area later …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated June 22, 2022) Introduction: Canadian Immigration before the Arrival of War Brides and Their Children From 1945 to 1947, Canada’s immigration controls remained restrictive. Although a majority of labour organizations opposed the liberalization of immigration …
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by Siniša Obradovic, Former Oral History Researcher The Oral History Collection and Interviews in French The Oral History team at the Canadian Museum of Immigration conducts recorded interviews across the country in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent …
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