• Benchmarking our digital preservation achievements
    … At the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, the focus of the collection is digital-born and digitized items, including oral histories, … tools available for anyone to use. Our team recently spent some time completing both of these assessments, in order to measure how far we … DPC Assessment - Current Level in Blue and Target Level in Orange. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 2024 DPC Assessment - …
  • Dutch Culture and Traditions
    … Sport In the winter, the Dutch love to cheer on their favourite speed skaters. … people in the northern parts of the Netherlands skating along the canals. Soccer is also another tremendously popular sport in the … At the age of 12, depending on the child’s skills and what they want, they can choose from 4 different types of high schools to enter. …
  • Experiences of Place: Immigration Experiences in Sault Ste. Marie
    … Introduction: The Research Project My name is Jay Patel. I am a York University … . The project focused on 13 interviews conducted in Sault Ste. Marie (“the Sault”) in 2017 with people who came to Canada as immigrants or …
  • Audrey Pratt
    … underground in the back of the garden, covering the top with earth and sod for further protection. There were steps down so they could enter … 13 each. Coupons were used up quickly so new clothes were difficult to come by. Fabric and yarn for knitting were also rationed. Husband: … since discovered that it is quite good. Many other Canadian foods have come my way over the years, but I have not mastered a taste for …
  • Tajti Family
    … Families Before 1956 The TAJTI family of Matramindszent, Hungary Welland City Directories show that the surname was changed to TAYTI in 1937. … 24, 1930. They traveled by train to meet Istvan. The ship’s manifest said Istvan lived at 446 South Main St., in Welland. A daughter, Anne, …
  • The Beginning of a Story Museum
    … by Carrie-Ann Smith, Vice President, Audience Engagement The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is a story museum. We … of immigrants to Canada. We catalogue, contextualize, and curate. We may turn up the volume, but the voices are authentic. Telling stories … goes back to long before Pier 21 was declared a National Historic Site or anyone dreamed of its evolution into a national museum. …
  • Theodore and Maria Jacobs
    … his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the Netherlands upon the Groote Beer (Great Bear), but … killed and the Dutch were being blamed. When Dutch soldiers returned home, they were not appreciated. Between this and suffering from Post …
  • Postwar Immigration through Pier 21
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction V-E (Victory in Europe) Day, May 8, 1945, marked not only the beginning of the return home from … European backgrounds. Almost all of them landed at Pier 21. “...My last papers were checked and Orwell, who could wait no longer, came …
  • Dad's Story
    … Stories in Dutch 15 April 1953, na twee uuur slapen werden wij weer op geropen om de groten overtocht te aan vaarden. Just en op afgesproken tijd arriveer de … voeten. Vroolijke steming heerste er in de bus en dit doet je de Ernst van’t groote gebeuren een beetje verzachten. Hoe wel zulk een levens …
  • Dennis Teitsma
    … Families Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get away from it all. Living in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no harm. My parents had done their utmost to shield us from the negative effects …