• Mary Fitzpatrick and Deirdre Anne
    … crossing. She relied on kind passengers and crew to care for me. When we arrived at Pier 21, my mother was weak and had lost a lot of weight. She had no idea how long the train trip to Toronto would be. She had only $10 and was asked to pay a disembarkation fee. When … Mary Fitzpatrick and Deirdre Anne …
  • Sheelah Mary Coughlan
    … possibly 1945. Pease were declared during her crossing. Chris was a baby so diapers etc. needed to be washed etc. Mom commented on how small … had to share. She mentioned how young mothers helped each other with babysitting so each could get a break. I did take my mother to Pier 21, … 54 years and had nine children. Dad served in the Service Corp. By Mrs. Carol MacDonald …
  • The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Aerial view of Ocean Terminals c. 1940. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 … The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War …
  • Janos Maté
    … Families 1956 From Stalin to Kellogg’s Cornflakes By: Janos Maté Had it not been for Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin my … So it was for our Mid-European Jewish family in nineteenth and twentieth century Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The lives of our parents …
  • Medical Facilities at Pier 21
    by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 20, 2021) Introduction: Medical Screening at Pier 21 The manual used by immigration staff in the 1950s stated that medical and physical requirements of the Immigration Act were “[f]or the protection of residents of Canada, and to ensure that persons …
  • Workers from the Philippines in Western PEI
    By Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian Introduction This blog focusses on the work lives of four women from the Philippines who are among the many Filipinos to arrive in Prince Edward Island in recent years. All four women participated in oral history interviews in 2023, and all four live in Western …
  • Brazil Community, Toronto, ON • Comunidade Brasileira, Toronto, ON
    … Brasileira, Toronto, ON Viemos em busca de sonhose e a vontade de vencer.   Nesta terra, encontramos apoio e amor. Hoje, agradecemos a … amados e o chamamos verdadeiramente de nosso lar. Obrigado Canadá! We arrived with so many dreams and a strong desire to succeed. On this … which we feel welcome and now call home. Thank you Canada! Dedicated by: Brasil Remittance Inc. Leblon Group …
  • Guenther Ivens
    … best buddy, Adolf Timm, after finishing our carpentry apprenticeships. We left Kiel by train to Bremerhaven Camp Lesum before boarding the … we saw the Kiel Harbour - was this to be the end of our journey? No, we by-passed Kiel and continued on to Copenhagen, were more passengers …
  • Daniel and Els Vander Hoek Family
    … S.S. Waterman on April 15, 1952. I was eight years old and the only thing I recall about the trip was being so seasick, I never left the room. Needless to say my mother and … landlord he only had five children and whenever the landlord dropped by, three kids had to hide. In 1954 they moved to London, Ontario. Both …
  • Thy Anne Chu Quang
    … Animated by Grace An Music by Sigmund Washington Thy Anne Chu Quang is from Vietnam and now lives in Montreal. She's a project coordinator for the Naskapi Nation of … Thy Anne Chu Quang …