• Customs and Traditions Wall
    … into four important themes: journey, arrival, belonging and impact. My favorite place to take visitors is the impact section. Here, we tell … Pacific Railway? There is one part of the impact section that is my absolute favorite: the customs and traditions wall. Here, we ask …
  • A Lifetime of Giving
    … know if it was love at first sight, but when a 6-year-old named Muriel met an 8-year-old named Bud, something special started. The pair, who have now been married for 61 … drive. Muriel insists that she will never forget the immigrants she met during her time at Pier 21, whom she remembers as “weary but …
  • Marie Louise Whitfield
    … the occasion of Marie’s 80th birthday: “I remember the first time we met in the summer of 1943. It was at my regimental dance and Marie shouldn’t have been there because her and … town. I knew as soon as I saw her that she was going to be the one for me. It so happens the farm that Marie was stationed at wasn’t too far …
  • A Match Made on the North Atlantic
    … this handsome guy I bumped into was later to be my husband, a Dane named Martin? In the evening Martin bowed and clicked his heels in front … two heads together. That was our first beautiful kiss. We enjoyed the company of each other throughout our trip. We had many walks around the …
  • Life Begins at 20 by Noel
    … We could get established, then send for the rest of the family. I immediately and excitedly agreed. But, just weeks before our passage on … at Westinghouse where he worked in Hamilton. Given that my purpose in coming to Canada was to financially help my parents, I had thought it … on her seventeenth birthday. As we got to know each other, I became completely captivated. During all this time, I had been surprised to …
  • John Devai, Olga Kimpel Devai
    … I arrived in Canada on May 28, 1950 and was fortunate to have experienced the wonderful … of the General Stuart Heintzelman as it was aboard the ship that I met my future husband, John Devai. By faith, we were both fortunate to have been located to Chatham, Ontario where we would meet again. For both my future husband and I, the landing in Canada …
  • Jozwiak, Yarosh,
    … Hanja, and two brothers, John (Jan) and Michael. She arrived in Canada on October 27, 1927, on the ship Montroyal, at Halifax, at the … of 20 and went to stay with her brother John in Toronto. There, she met and married John Yarosh (born Joannes Jarosz) on June 22, 1929. … Road in Welland Ontario. John Yarosh, born Joannes Jarosz on January 26, 1905 in the village of Dubowce, Tarnopol, Austria, to Terentius …
  • Bill and Jo Hawkins
    … When I married my husband, Flt Sgt. William (Bill) Hawkins, a Canadian on June 24th … what vast changes would take place in my life. Gradually it dawned on me that I would actually be leaving the little town of Chingford Essex, …
  • Share your story
    … The Museum would like to hear from anyone with a story related to Canadian immigration. Personal and family experiences of immigration … grow by sharing yours. Criteria for Written Stories The Museum may collect stories that meet the following criteria: The story meets the Museum’s mandate: …
  • He Just Wanted Better Veggies—Now Hundreds Are Growing Their Own
    … Raymond, with two members of the Rainbow Community Garden. Contributed by Raymond Ngarboui Raymond Ngarboui … how immigration is shaping Canadian cuisine , and how food connects newcomers to their heritage, adapts to new tastes, and builds new communities. A Hunger for Home Born in Chad and raised during the …