• 1999: Canada’s Resettlement and Repatriation of Kosovar Refugees
    … in Albania, notes that “Communication was difficult…Cell phones died around two o’clock in the afternoon…Moving the refugees required a … had a warm feeling and happiness, I felt like a child again.” [21] On 26 May, the last evacuation flight arrived in Canada. Over 90 percent … Canadian Forces Logistics Association , 2019, https://www.cfla-alfc.org/stories/op-parasol/; Canadian Armed Forces and Kelsey Berg, …
  • F.C. Crosman
    … F.C. Crosman …
  • Language as a Pull Factor for Newcomers to Francophone Minority Communities
    by Siniša Obradovic, Oral History Researcher The Oral History Collection and Interviews in French The Oral History team at the Canadian Museum of Immigration conducts recorded interviews across the country in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent the …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2020
    … the countless journeys that immigrants made and continue to make to come to Canada. It may have reminded you of your own family’s story. On … person last year, while over 489,000 unique visitors spent time on our website learning about our programs, stories and collections. I am also … the rest of the Museum community, to re-examine how we reach our audience at home (and from home) during a time when they are unable to …
  • From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of the Canadian Museum of Immigration
    by Sorcha Clarke This is a guest post from Visiting Researcher Sorcha Clarke, a PhD candidate at Ulster University / Queen's University Belfast. It contains frank discussion of the difficult circumstances encountered by Home Children before and during their placements in Canada, including physical …
  • General WC Langfitt
    … photograph, be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). … General WC Langfitt …
  • W.A.T. van den Byllaardt
    … on April 21, 1957, with the SS Ryndam, HAL. During the trip we had one day, rough stormy weather in the North Atlantic and the dining room did … the train made numerous stops and had long waits in nowhere. Every chance we had when the train stopped at a station, my travel … then we continued our trip west. We left for Edmonton, AB with the "Super Continental". The train had benches comfortable enough to get …
  • Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972
    … became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be traced back to the early interwar period. Against the backdrop … Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972 …
  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
    … Jean was born December 29, 1924 and grew up in London, England. They experienced very different beginnings – Bill grew up an only child, … with different family members in various small communities in southern Ontario. Jean grew up with five siblings and her parents in a major international centre. Bill signed up with the …
  • There's more to this book than recipes
    … a camp where everyone had been pulled out of their homes and thousands died of starvation, collecting familiar recipes conjured and preserved … among the recipes featured on the eat make share page of the Museum's website . A reproduction of the recipe book, showing Rebecca's Orange … what eat make share has to offer. The exhibition closes January 18, 2026.   …