• Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … during the Depression. [4] Until significant movements of soldier dependents began in 1944, the majority of immigrants were citizens … in events at the Embarkation Unit or aboard ship. [23] At other points, bands played to bid farewell or welcome personnel home. [24] … updated 26 September 2013, accessed 16 April 2014 at http://www.pc.gc.ca/APPS/CP-NR/release_e.asp?bgid=134&andor1=bg; Parks Canada, …
  • General WC Langfitt
    … ship photograph, be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). … General WC Langfitt …
  • Historic Pier 21
    … of four adjoining waterfront sheds, the key transit areas of Halifax’s South End Ocean Terminals. The overall development included the grain elevator system, hotel and rail station, rail car maintenance shed, the four waterfront sheds and an annex building for the … attracting high-profile visitors including the Prime Minister of the day, Sir Robert Borden. [2] Undertaken in 1915, just after the outbreak …
  • 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 …
  • Signs of Agency in Refugee Narratives
    … December 4, 2020 ) Introduction: Agency in Extreme Circumstances When people live through extreme circumstances , such as war, they face … people who experience war, violence or trauma – are also agents who can exert control in situations defined mostly by control being taken … about Czeslaw Tomaszewski’s wartime experiences and his decision to come to Canada; the courage of Lynda Dyck, also during the Second World …
  • Chilean Exiles, 1973 to Now
    Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian and Patrick Kinghan, M.A., Research Intern Introduction: The Chilean Exile Crisis 2023 marks the 50-year anniversary of a coup d’état in Chile that overthrew the democratically-elected Unidad Popular (Popular Unity) party and led to 6,000 Chilean exiles settling in …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … and provide testimony to a federal immigration official that he or she is a minor. Otherwise, within Canadian immigration policy, they are treated as adult …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2024
    … the Museum. The Museum offers exhibitions and programming to a large audience here in Nova Scotia, but we reach far beyond our home province … narrative in here. So this is a really useful tool that's also on our website that gives you a rundown of what to expect in the exhibits. And … tied together. That's why we've selected food as the theme for our upcoming traveling exhibition, which we are calling eat, make, share: a …