• “There was a thriving slave economy on our shores”
    … Shackles like this reproduction, created by a blacksmith at Port Greville, … important. It answers a lot of questions, not only for the greater community but for the African Nova Scotian and Black Canadian …
  • A Match Made on the North Atlantic
    … was just days old and shared their amazing story with us. They still reside in the United States and are the proud parents of three grown …
  • The Children’s Trunks
    … and friends. Re-imagining the Pier 21 exhibit has given us a chance to bring some of the chapters in the site’s history to life by sharing our friends' stories. I get to do … video and clothing (and some items that our young visitors can play with). Ausma Levalds Rowberry Credit: Canadian Museum of …
  • Political Involvement and Divisiveness - Frank Scarfino
    … one of the, yes, I was one of the,—it would be arrogant to say student leaders, but I was one of the co-presidents of a group that was, I … I did. I liked Marx and I liked Hegel. But I wasn't a member of the Communist Party. And most of the people, I know—I remember, there were … Gallery Draft Card (2-S) issued to Frank A. Scarfino, 8 June, 1965 Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2016.393.3] Draft …
  • Being Selected to Come to Canada - Madan Kumar Giri
    … Being Selected to Come to Canada - Madan Kumar Giri …
  • Quotes
    … he pressed on towards the Canadian shores to give his family a new lease in life.” (Pietro Di Loia) “These were very difficult post war … and child. Trying to learn the language and how to get around in the city was difficult. He told us many times if he had the money to return … at the prospect of venturing to a new land, all the way on the other side of the ocean, and my desire for adventure, I was 15, made my …
  • Lazslo Galambos
    … ears that notion sounded unusual. You see in Hungarian, "Hal" with one "L" means "fish", so I imagined that we were all to be taken into a … and cold because I remember the weather then as being very cold. I visited Halifax for the first time since 1957, just 4 years ago. I found …
  • One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort
    … care, because I would get meals…my cousin and his wife, they put a sheet from the ceiling down so they could be separate, and then the … half of the bed. That, I remember. And I used to tease my cousin, I said, “You sleep with a girl!” Again, when people remember being … things I recall, I guess because…there are certain freedoms that you can’t describe that…worries were taken off your shoulder.” And was Vita …
  • Cristoforo Colombo by Bruno
    … So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … I’ll see papà again … and I feel a little bit happy. The horn blasts from the ship. Everything is shaking. …
  • Captain C.P.H.E. Huxford
    Captain Huxford pictured on his wedding day with wife, Margaret Huxford Captain Huxford on his wedding day with wife, Margaret Huxford Captain Huxford on his wedding day with wife, Margaret …