• Wall of Service
    … “Thank you for your sacrifice. We live in the best country in the world because you fought to keep it this way.” …
  • George and Evelyn DeLorey
    … Evelyn May (Blackburn) DeLorey Daughter of Henry and Jane (Cullen) Blackburn Born March 15, 1923 in Kent, England …   Met her husband George Willis Renford DeLorey, a soldier with the West Nova Scotia Regiment at a social in the summer of 1940. Married … 22, 1944 (9 days at sea). Met by Army personnel and put on a train to Western Shore, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. Met at the Station by …
  • Changing Awareness - Peter Seixas
    … the growing-up years, the United States was just the obvious place to be, and it was the best, and it was the most important and, everything else was just …
  • Sergeant Elmo Hugh Munroe
    … 24, 1941 - November 2, 1941   The Personal Account of Elmo Hugh Munroe As Told To His Daughter Mary Lynn Smith     MUNROE, ELMO HUGH   April 10, 1921 - …
  • Dmitri and Anastasia Tarasuk Family
    … TARASUK FAMILY: VOYAGE TO CANADA Dimitri (35) and Anastasia (33) and their five children, Mary (9), Valentina (7), Michael (5), Jeanne (3) … spokesman had questioned some of the Communist views. He feared for his life. By good fortune, Canada was welcoming Ukrainian farmers. Anastasia had a brother, Nikander Owcharuk, already settled in St. Walburg, Saskatchewan. Under threat for their safety, …
  • If Luggage Could Talk…
    … One of the greatest things about my job as a Visitor Experience Interpreter here at the Museum is helping people … the image, in the top right-hand corner, I notice a washing machine (complete with an attached hand-operated clothes wringer!). For some of … too much alcohol into the country. To this woman, the action is incomprehensible as, in my mind, she has never travelled much beyond the …
  • Andrea, Rosa, Antonino, Franca Maio
    … 1931. My real birthdate is earlier than my recorded birthdate as my father would not have been able to make the trip to register me on my … my father needed my help in the fields. In addition to the labour of his six daughters, he had to employ men as he did not have any sons to …
  • Douwe and Hinke Neef and Family
    … four children Hans (Hank), age 12, Maria Hinke, age 11, Aaltje (Alice), age 9 and Anna Maria, age 2, left Rotterdam, the Netherlands on … the Zuiderkruis was on its way to Indonesia, most of the crew on this luxury liner were Japanese. The family was able to stay together in one cabin. One evening during a bad storm, Douwe and Hans went to a film but by the end of the film …
  • Perfect Pairings Lobster Dip with Ka’ak Al-Quds
    … by blending elements of their unique cultural food traditions.  This unique recipe was a collaboration between Comfort Foodies owner Keisha Carter and Ghada Shuli, founder of Chef Mama G, bringing together …
  • John Hugh MacEachern
    … John Hugh Mac Eachern left via Pier 21 as a young man from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and as a member of the Royal Canadian Airforce on his way to England during World War II. Flight Sergeant Mac Eachern was … John Hugh MacEachern …