• Petronella Van Luxemburg Seiferling
    … This is the story of how Petronella Helena Van Luxemburg Seiferling came to arrive in Canada … were in quarantine in Halifax due to illness. Their next step was a four-day train ride to her new home in Saskatchewan – their ride from … her “little Holland” her whole life, and wasn’t able to return for a visit until 20 years after she landed in Canada at Pier 21. Mum passed …
  • The Children’s Trunks
    … Since the Museum opened in 1999 we have been collecting stories, pictures, interviews 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 … video and clothing (and some items that our young visitors can play with). Ausma Levalds Rowberry Credit: Canadian Museum of …
  • Historical Thinking (4) : Continuity and Change
    … multilayered than many individuals realize. The discipline of history can be viewed as a complex interplay between continuity and change. … when continuity is present. In our 2012 temporary exhibition, Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes , the case study of the … between continuity and change. In researching Lebanese immigration to Canada, and in particular Halifax, previously published scholarly …
  • The Museum is a March-Break Must-Do
    … is sponsored by Emera, everything we're offering this March Break is complimentary , including: Movement programming Cooking workshops … Pyjamas are welcome any day at the Museum but they are encouraged for that particular day. Visit the exhibitions, admission is free. There are two main …
  • L/Cpl Leland M. Pratt
    … to land in France on D-Day. The couple tell two different stories of how they met but agree it was at a dance in Eastleigh's old town hall. … "He kept coming around and the rest is history." Lee proposed "on the eve of his departure for Normandy Beaches, June 1944." Because he was …
  • Share Your Story Guide
    … shortages? How did this affect your daily activities? How was your community affected by the conflict? Do you remember the conflict coming … leave and go to Canada? What was involved in the process of leaving? For example, was there official paperwork, interviews and/or … in Canada? Has it made a difference for you? Have you gone back to visit your country of origin? If so, what was this like? Reflection …
  • Giovanni Falvo
    … daytime but the ship stopped for a short time to allow passengers to buy souvenirs from the fishing boats nearby using baskets with a long … of the water. Our next stop was in Lisbon, Portugal for five hours, visiting the city. On our way again, no one became ill as it was … for three years in 1968 for mine and my brother’s weddings. Today, I’ve been back to Italy three times with my wife Rosemarie, and once …
  • Peggy, Dorothy, Dick, Don
    … stayed for almost a week until we were delivered into the loving care of, now the late, Della and Carl Allen of "Four Winds Farm" Upper Cape, N.B., on Baie Verte some 30 miles from Sackville. Our arrival in Upper Cape …
  • Aamir Mirza
    … brother they were all well established and they had no intention to come and start from scratch. But I told them my assessment is that it is going to get worst, if not for yourself, for your children. Maybe you need to move. And there is … my brother and sister they’re here, my parents are here, they came to visit me because, once my—they never wanted to come, and travel that …
  • Antonio Nicolini
    … to Pier 21 for the first time since first landing in Canada. The visit to Pier 21 was a moving primary experience for me as I did not have any vivid recollection of that first arrival back in 1954. This … life for his family than that which he had inherited and following the vast devastation resulting from the Second World War of his home and …