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  • Uncovering secrets of the popular miniature Pier 21 model
    … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
  • Uncovering secrets of the popular miniature Pier 21 model
    … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
  • Helena Lengacher
    … Lengacher, April 2016 I was born September 6, 1920, in Waterland-Oudeman situated in Oost-Vlanderan, Belgium to the proud parents of Rene … life and remembered having servants to take care of all the daily household tasks. At age 11, my father sold the farm and built a house … War II, German forces invaded my country on May 10, 1940. In just 18 days of fierce fighting, the Belgium military was pushed back into a …
  • Al and Agnes Kolarik
    … Immigrant Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia Ship Name: T.S.S. Nea Hellas Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Date of Arrival: April 23, 1949 Age on Arrival: Alois - 30 years old, Anezka - 24 years old The following is the story … historical documents and research. Many details were taken from Alois’s memoirs that he wrote at the age of 92. He started writing his …
  • Walking by Faith by Irma
    … to attend a church where he learned that we often have to walk by faith and not by sight. That is how he got three jobs. Ten months … I remembered what my husband always told me: “we must walk by faith,” and despite everything that was happening, I felt peace. We … started a daycare. And in spite of everything, we continue to walk by faith. Return to Toronto …
  • Countless Journeys Podcast
    … - Annette Clarke How to Share an Egg - Bonny and Saul Reichert The Spice of Life - Vikram Vij Chop Suey Nation - Ann Hui Season 3: Immigrant …
  • Customs and Traditions: Holiday Edition!
    … In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we … this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them … holiday season. Some are religious, some are secular and many have a food component to them. But it became very clear to us that for many of …
  • Margaret S. Kydd
    … hours leave but he couldn’t confirm his being there for our wedding as D-Day had taken place and he was in a banned area, unable to make … his 10 days leave, in April 1945, we made arrangements for me to come to Canada. We felt if we waited until after the war, my departure … way as there were still German submarines patrolling the waters. The food was good, the ship was clean and we were treated well by the …
  • Arturo Isa Susan Rosanna Scotti
    … Arturo Isa Susan Rosanna Scotti …
  • Luigi Petti e Maria Pia Mastrangelo
    … in Ottawa who landed at Pier 21 exactly one year before. It was not an easy task landing in Halifax in the middle of winter, the cold weather and everything from the food to the landscape was very strange to me; very different than … We joined my father in Ottawa and for six months we shared a house in the suburbs with two other families. We then we moved to the …

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