• Scotiabank Family History Centre
    … Pier 21 was a new start for nearly one million immigrants, a journey into your family history could also begin here at the Scotiabank Family History Centre. Visit In Person: Every visitor who enters the Scotiabank Family History …
  • Philip Barry Chaytor Pepper
    … Barry and Marjorie, a portrait painter, raised four children, Sarah, Anne, Tony and Nicole who all live in Toronto. One interesting point … graciously accepted the invitation. Philip Barry Chaytor Pepper Q.C.; B.A.; M.A.; LLM died September 7th, 1997. He was born an Englishman but …
  • Two Ways to Dig into the History of the Black Battalion (1916-1920)
    By Anthony Black, Senior Writer Published on 01/02/2022 Credit: Courtesy of Esther Clark Wright Archives at Acadia University The world nearly forgot the existence of No. 2 Construction Battalion, a military unit made up of Black men determined to serve their country during the First World War. …
  • Canada’s Oppressed Minority Policy and the Resettlement of Ugandan Asians, 1972-1973
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 16, 2020) Introduction In January 1971, the Ugandan government of President Milton Obote was … resettlement of over 6,000 Ugandan Asians during 1972-1973 paved the way for future refugee programs including the admission of over 77,000 … Canada’s Oppressed Minority Policy and the Resettlement of Ugandan Asians, 1972-1973 …
  • Language as a "Pull" Factor for Newcomers to Francophone Minority Communities
    … by Siniša Obradovic, Former Oral History Researcher The Oral History … in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent the diversity of the country’s population in our … a majority English-speaking area? The following interview clips, where we focus on the pull factors, begin to address this question. In a …
  • Before and After 1923: Chinese Exclusion in Context
    … By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian As we approach the centenary of the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, answering three key historical questions will help us understand and make … immigration? How did the politics of exclusion develop in Canada? What were the consequences? What was the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923? The …
  • Empress of Ireland - The Model
    … by Ron Marsh, Model Builder Time 0:04:07 Transcript: Hello. My name is … about 800 hours over a twelve month period to get her the way she is right now. I was using pictures of the interior and the exterior mostly. I was as true to the original ship as I could be. Everything that is on this model was on the original Empress of …
  • Mary Didur’s Perogies
    … Growing up in 1930s Saskatchewan with Ukrainian parents, Mary Didur started making perogies when she was five or six years old.  She said, “the recipe …
  • By Sea or Land: Refugees or Displaced Persons - Van-Nha Tran
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 3:23 Transcript (This video is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) Yes, that's it. Since we, we, we learned that, uhm, the—by ocean, directly from Vietnam, …
  • Maksymchuk Andrew Anna
    … faced Andrew and Anna Maksymchuk as they struggled to scrounge a living and raise a family under the oppressive regime of Soviet Ukraine. … heard about the promise of free land in Canada. His pioneering spirit stirred within him, yearning for a free life, new dreams and brighter … publicity campaign by the Canadian government, thousands of settlers were flocking to Canada's prairies to establish themselves as farmers. …