• Missing My Mother As I Make My Home in Canada by Amarjit
    … Time 0:03:04 Transcript My childhood was in Nairobi, Kenya where my first memories are of growing up with loving parents doting neighbors and children of my age. I lived in a flat with my parents and my brother. The big house … Missing My Mother As I Make My Home in Canada by Amarjit …
  • D.F. van Laren
    … Single Men and Women October 28, 1953 – Groote Beer Tuesday Oct 20th departure day finally arrived. My fiancée had the use of her father’s car for the trip to Rotterdam …
  • Giuseppe e Caterina e Maura Martino
    … A Little Stroll into my Past - Giuseppe Martino, Toronto July 21, 2001 I came to came to Canada on March 16, 1954 with my wife, Fortunata Caterina Martino, born …
  • Silvano Indri
    … Che bella la Casetta in Canada – What A Beautiful Little House in Canada I … tune that went like this: “C’erà una casetta piccolina in Canada, con tanti pesciolini et tanti fiori di lilà, e tutte le ragazze che passavano di là, dicevono che bella la …
  • Back to the Land - Peter Seixas
    … a—there’s a thread of me that still sees this as a, as a believable response to the conditions that we face today. I mean, we saw the, … on the porch of a house in Powell River, British Columbia, 1970-1973. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [D12014.685.4] … Photograph of Peter Seixas splitting logs on the farming commune in Powell River, British Colombia, 1970-1973. Credit: Canadian …
  • Immigration from the US - Biographies
    … Bruce Campbell Bolin was born in 1946 in Detroit Michigan. He grew up in Dearborn … upon graduation. They came over the Port Huron-Sarnia border settling in Toronto. Bruce worked at the University of Toronto in the … firms. He later returned to the United States for a job in New York City, working for 9 years at various positions in the financial sector …
  • Dirk and Hedwig van Laren
    … The OCEAN CROSSING on the GROOTE BEER October 20-28, 1953 Tuesday Oct 20th departure day finally arrived. My fiancée had the use of …
  • Media Centre
    … including quick facts, contact information, and a selection of high-quality digital photos. About the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is located in the national historic site at the Halifax seaport where nearly one million immigrants landed …