• New Year, Canadian Beer
    … email on January 2 nd from a very excited Margot Tarajos. She asked if we would be open for her visit 363 days later. Margot was two and a … in for our first night in Canada. The next morning, we started on our way. I don't think my parents realized how big Canada was. Travelling …
  • Johannes Kreeft and Elisabeth Kreeft-Meijers
    … Families September 21, 1952 – Groote Beer In 1952 my husband Johannes C. Kreeft and I left Holland with our three … children, Jacomina Susanna, Gerard Jan and Willem ages 5,4 and 3. We travelled aboard the Groote Beer, leaving September 21, 1952, …
  • An Incomplete Portrait of Canada
    … Maru looms over part of our museum- a haunting memory of faces turned away by the racist immigration policies of the era. In the section of … room of Dutch immigrants on long, full benches, waiting to make their way through medical and immigration interviews and board trains to … policy. (Dutch immigrants in the new Assembly Hall at the Canadian Railways Terminal, Halifax, NS. c 1930.) Credit: Library and Archives …
  • Siegfried Mehlitz Sr.
    … My Journey started 7th July 1952 in West Berlin (US Sector). I left Berlin by Bus with approximately 50 to … Script dollars (military money) which we could spent at the PX Shop to buy cigarettes, chocolates and other small items. After 2 to 3 days sea …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    … a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be … Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.” …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    … a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be … Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.” …
  • An Incomplete Portrait of Canada
    … Maru looms over part of our museum- a haunting memory of faces turned away by the racist immigration policies of the era. In the section of … room of Dutch immigrants on long, full benches, waiting to make their way through medical and immigration interviews and board trains to … policy. (Dutch immigrants in the new Assembly Hall at the Canadian Railways Terminal, Halifax, NS. c 1930.) Credit: Library and Archives …
  • The Alois Kienle Family
    … I don't quite believe it, I'm actually going to Pier 21, Halifax NS. Ever since I heard … village in Germany for the adventure of our lives. Some neighbours were there to say farewell. Most of them thought we were out of our …
  • My Last Ten Years as an Immigrant to Canada and Working at an Immigration Museum
    … At the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, we collect and tell the stories of immigrants who came to Canada and continue to come to Canada to make a new home for themselves. Some of these … Like a child, I had to learn how to speak. I had to learn how to buy food at the grocery store, and how to cook it at home. Then came …
  • Becky Forshaw Angus
    … In 1945, she and Chub relocated to Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) where they became caretakers of a large tourist camp along the … and retired in 1971. She lived the rest of her days quietly in her "wee hoose" by the shore of her beloved Lake Superior. She died on May …