• Annemarie Buchmann-Gerber
    Swastika Painted on Her House Time 0:02:31 Transcript I had incidents, that’s again us being a newcomer in Prince Albert, that’s later when we had the two children my daughter was two so it was in ’76, we bought our first little house and we moved, and my husband and I at home we speak …
  • Food Wars! Immigration and Food Confiscation at Pier 21
    Food Wars! Immigration and Food Confiscation at Pier 21 …
  • Food Wars! Immigration and Food Confiscation at Pier 21
    by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) Introduction “If one thing caused scenes at Pier 21, it was sausages.” This statement located on a panel in the Museum’s (pre-2015) core exhibition sheds light on an interesting yet underexplored aspect of Canadian immigration history: food …
  • Yolaine Maudet
    Getting Permanent Resident Status Time 0:02:47 Transcript (Translated from French) YM : Yes (laughs), yes. Every time—the biggest file to complete is the permanent residency. There’s a medical section too: you see a doctor, etc... Since I’d been working in Quebec for about 2 years, I had no extra …
  • Angelo Cuoppolo
    Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Italy Date of Arrival: April 24, 1954 Ship Name: Roma Port of Entry: Halifax Age on Arrival: 19 At the age of 19 in April of 1954 Angelo Cuoppolo left his home town of Monteleone, Italy, with his brother Giuseppe. Angelo had never traveled out of his small …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 2
    by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 22, 2020) Immigration through the Port of Quebec during the 1920s In the 1920s, the Port of Quebec’s primary function became grain export. However, the site continued to be a major point of entry for immigrants to Canada. On 28 May 1921, Toronto's Globe …
  • Canadian Immigration Acts and Legislation
    by Lindsay Van Dyk, Former Junior Researcher What do immigration rules tell us about Canada? Since 1869, Canada has had laws and regulations governing the admission of immigrants. Immigration legislation has evolved and changed over time, shaped by the shifting social, political and economic …
  • Immigration Act, 1869
    Canada’s first immigration act following Confederation contained few restrictions on immigration. The government of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald developed an open immigration policy to encourage the settlement of the West, seeking to enhance access to the region’s natural resources and create a …
  • Josef and Elisabeth Follmer
    Josef and Elisabeth Follmer …
  • Margaret, Susan Wort
    Margaret, Susan Wort …