• Learn from Life in Canada by Lily
    … Time 0:04:22 Transcript When people ask me about my immigration story, the first picture that comes into my mind is the snowstorm. It was January 2010, my first trip … I experienced, knowing how difficult the life would be for newcomers, I am offering landing service, helping other immigrants to … Learn from Life in Canada by Lily …
  • David E. and Regina Hartman Family
    … am David & Regina Hartman's third daughter, and the first one born in Canada! Mom was 4 1/2 months pregnant with me, when they left … 1910 when they converted to the Baptist faith. Catherine (who had come from Austria) had asked for professional people to help populate … that our parents came to this country. When my husband and I went to visit Pier 21 in 2000 and had their names placed on the Sobey Wall of …
  • Cor Groenewegen
    … had arrived in Formosa. The following weekend Cor and Nico went to visit the Remkes family. The family soon moved to Carlsruhe and then to …
  • A Welcome Sign?
    … Cartoon published July 1, 1999. (Material republished with the express permission of: PNI … MacKinnon captures something felt by many- the feeling of being welcomed in Canada – the feeling that the country represented a chance at … above where passengers disembarked, were written the words “Welcome Home to Canada.” The Welcome Home to Canada sign, visible from the …
  • The Children’s Trunks
    … and friends. Re-imagining the Pier 21 exhibit has given us a chance to bring some of the chapters in the site’s history to life by … video and clothing (and some items that our young visitors can play with). Ausma Levalds Rowberry Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [2013.1912.24] Ausma Levalds …
  • 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 stories … Since coming to Canada, I returned home only once in December 2012 to visit my family. Things had changed after 5 years. I was afraid to take …
  • Historical Thinking (4) : Continuity and Change
    … multilayered than many individuals realize. The discipline of history can be viewed as a complex interplay between continuity and change. … when continuity is present. In our 2012 temporary exhibition, Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes , the case study of the … between continuity and change. In researching Lebanese immigration to Canada, and in particular Halifax, previously published scholarly …
  • The Giovanni Ferrarelli Family
    … and gave them the opportunity for freedom. The year was 1945. First visit to Canada was November 25, 1951 from the port of Halifax. …
  • Cesidio Mariani
    … June 6, 1955 I came to Canada from a small Italian town in central Italy. I arrived on June 12, 1955 on the Queen Frederica. I followed my father, who had come to Canada in 1952 because of the poor economic conditions at home. … our trips there. I still love Italy and find it a beautiful country to visit, but Canada is my home. …
  • Nicolangelo Romano
    … became an American citizen. We met when Mary came to Toronto to visit relatives, one of whom I was friends with and married in 1959. … they were little and our fur grand puppies from time to time. We have visited every province of Canada (Mary hasn’t been to Newfoundland yet) …