• Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes
    … Landscapes . Visitors discovered the ways groups and individuals maintain and produce their cultural identities in Canada. The … landscapes through seven case studies around key ideas like family, faith, food, recreation and neighbourhood. The result showed aspects of how people create, maintain and experience cultural landscapes across Canada. …
  • Hendrik, Hendrika van't Veld
    … together in small staterooms and the men in separate staterooms. The food was ordinary Dutch staple diet but our father wasn’t a happy traveller on the Atlantic Ocean. By day 2 he was seasick and this condition lasted until he set foot on solid ground in Halifax. Trying to put his socks on one morning …
  • Sbarra
    … breeze was sweeping the air in the sunny mid-morning of Tuesday, June 26, 1951. The USNS General Harry Taylor , a U.S. merchant ship which … for the moment when the uncomfortable ocean crossing would finally come to an end. We were taciturn while the sound of the waves striking … the start of a new beginning from the moment they would set foot on a new land and stepped over the threshold of Pier 21. The …
  • Michael Supino
    … On August 19, 1954, approximately one month shy of my sixth birthday, my mother, Teresina DiGirolamo, and most of my siblings, … years prior to our departure, he set out for Canada with his strong faith in God and a relentless drive to succeed. Our father's vision of … Mediterranean Sea was calm and uneventful. Soon we came to an enormous mountain. My older brother, Joseph, told me that this was Gibraltar, …
  • Children of the Pier: Adolescent Experiences of Arrival and Process
    … their parents used Pier 21’s amenities to rest, take a shower, secure food, or purchase tickets for train travel to their final destination … ask you any questions, if you bring in any money, or jewellery, or food, or anything. Like, we were in the darkness, basically. And if …
  • Francesco and Rosaria
    … would send him back to Italy and not sponsor him any longer. The next day he went searching for a job on foot as he did not have enough money for public transport. There were … children were too young to remember him. TIME STOOD STILL In my mountain town, time stood still in days of yore Til the outside world …
  • The Francesco Supino Family
    … On August 19, 1954, approximately one month shy of my sixth birthday, my mother, Teresina DiGirolamo, and most of my siblings, … years prior to our departure, he set out for Canada with his strong faith in God and a relentless drive to succeed. Our father's vision of … Mediterranean Sea was calm and uneventful. Soon we came to an enormous mountain. My older brother, Joseph, told me that this was Gibraltar, …
  • Stanislaw and Barbara Sokol
    … excruciating pain. Another story told of him having to walk across a mountain to have a tooth extracted. He had scurvy and survived a bout … to avoid this rock......just hang on! You will go under water but will come out the other side of the rock. This must have taken huge faith and nerve but this they did and both rafts survived. On Sept 7, …
  • A Taste of Something New: Adapting to Food in a New Country
    … and certainly relatable challenge is adapting to new and unfamiliar foods. In Canada, one is inevitably exposed to different food from around the … As a result, many immigrants face struggles in trying to cook healthy food. Sometimes it’s hard to buy food within your budget because many … A Taste of Something New: Adapting to Food in a New Country …
  • Mark Sakamoto in Conversation with Jeanne Beker
    … Media Release May 13, 2019 Halifax, NS Forgiveness, Family and Canadian identity: Mark Sakamoto in Conversation with Jeanne Beker … of a human tragedy to offer a unique perspective on the idea of a Canadian family. Released in 2014 to sweepingly glowing reviews, Forgiveness also won 2018 Canada Reads, as defended by Canadian fashion journalist, icon and …