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  • Michael Supino
    … Michelina, Joseph Carmela, Domenico, and I (Michelangelo) left the small rural town of Provvidenti in the Campobasso region of Italy. We … over 30 years working in Canada and returned home very few years to visit. He retired to Italy just the year before we left. He helped us … and encountered motion sickness. I seem to recall that everyone was ill. No one was eating. Even to this day the smell of vegetable soup …
  • White Paper on Immigration, 1966
    … legislation and make recommendations on its restructuring. A major review of policy was deemed necessary in response to the changing …
  • Then and Now by Gunnvor
    … Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago … they could not understand why we wanted to move to America. After all we have the USA army uphill from my home town and we could not …
  • Museum’s Podcasts Unearth Unforgettable Stories
    … Pictured, left to right, back row: Leya Evelyn, Paolo Pietropaolo, Ida Beltran-Lucila, Tina Pittaway, Rup Magon, … each feature distinct stories. Season Three, which launched in the final week of May focuses on the stories of artist-immigrants. Both shows … Armenian genocide, detained upon arrival in Canada, who went on to become one of Canada’s first naturalized citizens and one of the world’s …
  • The Francesco Supino Family
    … Michelina, Joseph Carmela, Domenico, and I (Michelangelo) left the small rural town of Provvidenti in the Campobasso region of Italy. We … over 30 years working in Canada and returned home very few years to visit. He retired to Italy just the year before we left. He helped us … and encountered motion sickness. I seem to recall that everyone was ill. No one was eating. Even to this day the smell of vegetable soup …
  • Katarina Marinic - 2019 Artist-in-Residence
    … Media Release June 17, 2019 Halifax, NS Katarina Marinic Named as Canadian … The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is delighted to welcome Katarina Marinic as Artist-in-Residence for 2019. Katarina’s work … Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Telephone: (902) 425-7770 ext. 264 C : (902) 430-3986  bhouston-gilfoy@pier21.ca …
  • Run Away by Oumou
    … I go home, there’s only one person in the nest. My mother is by herself. Sometimes I go to visit – I tell people I am going home. But when I am coming back to Canada, I tell people I am going home. So where is home? … was cut short in 1989. I felt an empty space around me without him although I am married with three kids. It became more and more hard for …
  • Mary Moir Cathcart
    … together (the crew and stewards were kind and accommodating to us all). When we arrived in Halifax after what was considered a very fast … all around us. It was a wonderful introduction to our new country, Canada. The next day we eagerly embarked to wait our turn in Pier 21. I … Not knowing I was on my way, my husband Neil had driven his parents to visit his sister in Waterton Park, Alberta. With difficulty, the Red …
  • Royal Commission on Italian Immigration, 1904-1905
    … to 150 percent above cost. [2] Cordasco induced Italian labourers to come to Canada by taking out advertisements in Italian-Canadian … employment upon arriving in Canada. In 1904, Cordasco recruited more men than the CPR required, creating an influx of unemployed …
  • Koster
    … [our parents were separated] and Hans had the idea that we should all go to Canada. At the time Walter was 16 years old, Irene 11 and I … were still so young and because we had no idea what to expect, it was more or less an adventure. Only Walter, many years later said he had …

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