• Empress of Ireland - Behind the Scenes with the Curator
    … by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:01:31 Transcript: We’re now preparing to put artifacts in a case from the wheelhouse of … that were there that night where fatal decisions were made about which way Empress of Ireland was going to go in the fog, those fatal …
  • Empress of Ireland - Voice Tubes
    … by Michele Gervais, Curatorial Projects Coordinator Time 0:01:13 … communication within the steamships that brought immigrants to Canada were voice tubes, or voice pipes, as this example seen display salvaged … to connect the Bridge (located here) to the Engine Room (located way over there). The voice tubes would have been used crucially during …
  • Changing Awareness - Peter Seixas
    … Digital StoryTelling) Time 0:01:49 Transcript: So, it was very, if I were to sum up my childhood, I would say it was a very comfortable, … to change. The larger, historical picture had begun to change, and the way that we thought about the United States, which to me, in the growing-up years, the United States was just the obvious place to be, and it was the best, and it was the most important and, everything …
  • Margaret Adu
    … Animated by HP Black Music by Sigmund Washington Margaret Adu , Honorary Consul Ghana and former president of the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Calgary arrived in Alberta in 1993. Margaret is an award winning architect. She’s the founder and …
  • Hugh M. Kelly
    … Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC)is saddened by the news that its In-House Legal Counsel, Hugh M. Kelly Q.C., passed away on December 12, …
  • Inte, Hilda Terpstra
    …   April 8, 1948 - Family and friends waving good bye to the passengers on the Kota Inten leaving the harbour of Rotterdam The Terpstra family The Terpstra children … Inte, Hilda Terpstra …
  • L/Cpl D. Lloyd Pulsifer
    … brother joined the military when he was nineteen leaving our newly widowed mother to run the farm with the help of an older brother who was … where they had been sent without furlough or any chance to say good-bye to their families. From England he was sent to Africa and on …
  • Refuge Canada - The Life Jackets
    … by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:01:22 Transcript: In our section Escape by Sea in Refuge Canada we have these two life jackets that were worn by children who were …
  • The Janis Levalds Family
    … Mr. Janis Levalds was born at Embute, Latvia in April 27, 1904 Family photo below shows Mr Levalds with his wife Karline, his son Ilmars (Nov 8, 1929), his daughter Rasma (Feb 16, 1933) … and Ausma (April 28, 1940). This picture was taken at Ausma's Christening (1940) in Latvia M Levalds' temporary travel document. …
  • Olive Hall and Bill Wells
    … with her and she was expecting another. She said she was ill all the way over with morning and sea sickness and that the other women were always helping her with my brother as he was a hand-ful, she stayed in … for 30 years in Pointe Claire, Quebec and now reside in Ottawa, ON. By Beverly Decle …