• A Welcome Sign?
    … end of this month, 2024 will be over. This has been a milestone year for the Museum. 2024 marked 25 years since Pier 21 reopened to the … MacKinnon captures something felt by many- the feeling of being welcomed in Canada – the feeling that the country represented a chance at … through Pier 21, often with their children and grandchildren, have visited and continue to visit. They come to retrace their steps as they …
  • Frederick Stubbs
    … after 1918 there was tremendous advertising to immigrate to Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Various government sponsored … work in Canada. My father agreed to let my brother, Sidney, and me come to Canada with the hope that after a few years we would be able to … in Ottawa, Ontario. After my father passed away, I went to England to visit my mother, my brothers and their families. Although we kept in …
  • Cesidio Mariani
    … 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. … off, while the one on shore would not let my mother on to talk to us. So, I could not say good-bye to my mother who was staying behind with my younger …
  • L/Cpl Leland M. Pratt
    … Lee was stationed in Utrecht, Holland but he got a couple of leaves to visit Audrey before he returned to Canada in January 1946. Audrey …
  • 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. …
  • Petronella Van Luxemburg Seiferling
    … were in quarantine in Halifax due to illness. Their next step was a four-day train ride to her new home in Saskatchewan – their ride from … her “little Holland” her whole life, and wasn’t able to return for a visit until 20 years after she landed in Canada at Pier 21. Mum passed …
  • 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 are used in the permanent exhibitions, online and … My Last Ten Years as an Immigrant to Canada and Working at an Immigration Museum …
  • 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 …
  • 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 Museum is a March-Break Must-Do
    … is sponsored by Emera, everything we're offering this March Break is complimentary , including: Movement programming Cooking workshops … Pyjamas are welcome any day at the Museum but they are encouraged for that particular day. Visit the exhibitions, admission is free. There are two main …