• Private Wilfred Raymond Webb
    … terrible times of WWII when our parents met. Our dad, Wilfred Raymond Webb, born on Dec 14, 1918 in Bishopton, Quebec, was first stationed in … England to help plot the enemy course and forward information. They always moved at night to foul the soldiers. Our father shipped out to … they had. Thanks Mom and Dad Your loving Children Beverly, Jo-Anne, Marshall, Deborah, Alan, David, and Donna. …
  • Archimede, Dina and John
    … miss with another ship. My mother remembers the cold, North Atlantic weather. She recalls port officials in Halifax as kind and caring people. They did, however, regiment newcomers into lines for trunks, luggage, customs, and … who left the comfort and security of home to risk it all and pave the way for others. They are very proud of their two children, two …
  • The Ellen Colmer Robson Family
    … of coal in his pocket, while mother, four of my five siblings and I, were sitting around the fire waiting for the New Year to be rung in. Mother casually mentioned emigrating. She had spoken of this many …
  • The Forgotten Immigrants: The Journey of the New England Planters to Nova Scotia, 1759-1768
    by Western University's MA Public History Program Students The migration of the New England Planters was the first significant migration to the Atlantic colonies in British North America. In the wake of the deportation of the Acadians in 1755, newly cultivated lands opened up in Nova Scotia, which …
  • Entrenching Refugee Rights in Canada: The 1985 Singh Decision
    by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction: Up to the early 1980s, refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination system remained partial to the interests of the Canadian government rather than the claimant. The …
  • Dutch Culture and Traditions
    … Sport In the winter, the Dutch love to cheer on their favourite speed skaters. It is not uncommon to see Dutch people in the northern parts of the Netherlands skating along the canals. Soccer is also another tremendously popular sport …
  • John Freeman-Marsh
    … like to go to CANADA. As I only had just turned 7 years of age, a few weeks before, and knew nothing about Canada, let alone where it was, I … one day in August I found myself leaving home with my parents on the way to Newcastle’s train station. There we were met by a lady, who had …
  • Koster
    … The following is the story of the Koster family. Why and how they came to Canada … visiting from Canada, that there was lots of land there and easy to buy. So that was where they wanted to go. When they went to The Hague for their medical examination and interview, the …
  • “There was a thriving slave economy on our shores”
    … at Port Greville, Nova Scotia, were used on enslaved peoples in Canada. Courtesy of Dr. Afua Cooper. An interview with Russell Grosse , Executive Director of the Black … the new exhibition A History Exposed: The Enslavement of Black People in Canada. The exhibition was created with guest curator by Dr. Afua …
  • “There was a thriving slave economy on our shores”
    … at Port Greville, Nova Scotia, were used on enslaved peoples in Canada. Courtesy of Dr. Afua Cooper. An interview with Russell Grosse , Executive Director of the Black … the new exhibition A History Exposed: The Enslavement of Black People in Canada. The exhibition was created with guest curator by Dr. Afua …