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Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Countless Journeys. One Canada.
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  • Art and Artifact
    … How a vivid dream and a nearly forgotten history led to a new exhibition Chinese Head Tax Certificate issued to … And I’m like ‘I don’t remember doing these. That’s weird!’” A homecoming to help move house In 2020, with life disrupted by the pandemic, … the First World War when the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 almost completely prohibited Chinese immigration. From 1923 until 1947, when …
  • Tino Masecchia
    … years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early in the morning to go … in the middle of an industrial neighbourhood. Everything looked so vast and tidy but the loud noise from the traffic on the Metropolitan … grade which I had finish that summer in Italy. My aunt decided it was best for me to learn both languages so I was put in a bilingual class. …
  • The Museum is a March-Break Must-Do
    … The city is a great place to spend March break if you can find the right things … is sponsored by Emera, everything we're offering this March Break is complimentary , including: Movement programming Cooking workshops … where they lived Marriage and death records Census records Gravesites The research connects kids to their family history and can help …
  • The Museum is a March-Break Must-Do
    … The city is a great place to spend March break if you can find the right things … is sponsored by Emera, everything we're offering this March Break is complimentary , including: Movement programming Cooking workshops … where they lived Marriage and death records Census records Gravesites The research connects kids to their family history and can help …
  • Flying Officer T.R. Millar
    … MY FATHER - F/O Thomas Roberts [Bob] Millar RAAF Observer 422612 104 Squadron … there. He was particularly academic and was Dux [head scholar] of his school. He married my mother in January 1942 and enlisted in May …
  • How Two Moroccan Newcomers Conquered Canadian Winter
    … Ghita and Saïd have the right gear and the right attitude about the cold. Photo courtesy of Saïd Allibou. “I can’t feel my hands!” Saïd was wearing gloves. His wife, Ghita, was not. It was February 4th, …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • How Two Moroccan Newcomers Conquered Canadian Winter
    … of Saïd Allibou. “I can’t feel my hands!” Saïd was wearing gloves. His wife, Ghita, was not. It was February 4th, just nine days after they … It began with an eight-minute walk through a park, along the Dartmouth Commons, to the bus terminal. Both Saïd and Ghita had seen snow before, … And the tears dropped from her eyes. ” The Canadian Government’s website records that winds that day were northerly and gusted to 89 km/h. …
  • Party Dresses, New Friends and Other Advice for a Long Quarantine
    … but tears just kept tumbling down my face. “As Mom and Granddad were disappearing from our view, I'm sure that their hearts were breaking, … absolutely, wonderful to us and did everything they could to make us comfortable, entertained and happy. “On one occasion they took me to … I knew she couldn't hear me. It was exciting that Mother could communicate with us this way, especially since I was missing her so …

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