• Why isn’t it called “Japantown”?
    … vol. 3567, file c315-36-3. Page 119/136 Many Canadian cities have a Chinatown. There are neighbourhoods called Greektown, Little Italy and Little Portugal. In pre-war Vancouver, the Powell Street area in the Downtown Eastside … started businesses and saved to buy land and establish their families. Why isn’t it universally known as Japantown now? Uncovering the answer …
  • Tom and Vi Appleton and Family
    … Tom and Vi Appleton and Family …
  • Why isn’t it called “Japantown”?
    … started businesses and saved to buy land and establish their families. Why isn’t it universally known as Japantown now? Uncovering the answer … Why isn’t it called “Japantown”? …
  • The Action Test of 1920: Literacy and Selection in Canadian Immigration
    … By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian For over a century, Canadian immigration authorities have used language proficiency as a … point of consideration in deciding whether a migrant is admissible to Canada. [1] This is not generally a controversial aspect of current Canadian immigration policy, but when the practice first emerged as an …
  • Museum Hits the Right Note for Pier 21 Club Member
    … It may not come as a surprise for many that the head of the National Arts Centre … music as a tool to learn English. But while the circumstances surrounding Peter Herrndorf’s use of music were less than ideal, it helped steer him down a path to become one of this country’s …
  • Eminently Suitable for Our Purposes: Official Commemoration of Immigrant Arrivals in Canada, 1949-1972
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian … federal immigration officials could showcase that the ‘preferred’ or ‘ideal’ immigrant was white, young, preferably British, with the … “Canada’s 50,000th DP Starts New Life in New Home,” Globe and Mail , 26 February 1949, 17. Oral History with Ausma Levalds Rowberry, …
  • Martin O. Kloet
    … In the year 1947 the first immigrants left Holland under the motto of "we need a better future for our children". The people in Holland had just come through a war and were trying to rebuild, but there was no housing and no money. At that time the governments of Canada and Holland and other countries as well, were setting up …
  • Flying Officer T.R. Millar
    … Millar RAAF Observer 422612 104 Squadron RAF Jan-July 1944 Foggia Main and 31 Squadron SAAF Aug-Oct 1944 Celone Foggia My RAAF father was … January 1942 and enlisted in May 1942, being sent overseas to Britain, via US and Canada in March 1943, just after I was born. He sailed from Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia to Bournemouth, England in April 1943. Sam Marshall, a …
  • V.I. Victoria B.C.War Brides
    … V.I. Victoria B.C.War Brides …
  • Why Kids Should Play in the Museum
    … Why Kids Should Play in the Museum …