• Jean Shephard Laffin
    … in after school just in time for a cup of tea and a sticky bun. The President was a Canadian whose name is Mrs. Bleech, and in the Parish … fees, or smart enough to pass the entrance exams. (I guess I wasn’t.) Anyway, I had just started work at the Boy’s Private Boarding school at … done. Well, one evening there was this soldier who came and gave me a pair of gloves to be mended. There wasn’t very many holes, and I didn’t …
  • Who is the Little Boy in this Picture?
    … Canada after World War II. A young Dave Campbell, with his mother, welcomes Canadian troops home at Pier 21 in 1945. Credit: Lieut. Richard Graham Arless / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada … Who is the Little Boy in this Picture? …
  • The Gold Rush in British Columbia and the Yukon
    … "The crowd of crazy fools" [1] It was a strange scene in Dawson City in the summer of 1897. Amidst the ramshackle wooden buildings, the … wealthy American ladies, Mary Hitchcock and Edith Van Buren, who had come to Dawson City not to make their fortune, but to experience …
  • 1999: Canada’s Resettlement and Repatriation of Kosovar Refugees
    … Argonaut (now Argonaut Cadet Training Centre), CFB Gagetown, 1999. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Collection (D2017.635.35) Introduction: The Significance of the Kosovar … Canadian Forces Logistics Association , 2019, https://www.cfla-alfc.org/stories/op-parasol/; Canadian Armed Forces and Kelsey Berg, …
  • The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … (Updated January 28, 2022) Aerial view of Ocean Terminals c. 1940. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Collection (DI2013.1197.1) As Canada prepared for war in late 1939, the … is often overshadowed by the scale of military movements through the site. Halifax’s Ocean Terminals were used as a primary embarkation …
  • Fattoush Salad - Adelle Tarzibachi
    … The word fattoush comes from the Arabic word fatafit, which refers to leftover stale pita bread that is given a delicious second life by … Fattoush Salad - Adelle Tarzibachi …
  • Who Is Admissible? Immigrant Desirability and Immigration Acts since Confederation
    … opened new exhibitions on the history of the Pier 21 National Historic Site of Canada and the history of immigration to Canada. This blog is … / C-009798 Government of Canada (hereafter GOC), Justice Laws Website, “VI. Distribution of Legislative Powers,” accessed 23 April 2014, …
  • La Bourdonnais
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