• 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 …
  • 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
    … exhibition sheds light on an interesting yet underexplored aspect of Canadian immigration history: food confiscation. Food can be a persistent feature of cultural traditions . It is … Food Wars! Immigration and Food Confiscation at Pier 21 …
  • 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 …
  • Yolan Bencsik
    … itself was not unpleasant. I remember the green grass: it was a sunny day, and it all seemed very easy. The Red Cross was there to aid us as we crossed the border to … to plan for the future, freedom to dream. He was 34, mother was 26. We liked Neikirchen Austria a lot with its mountains and pretty …
  • Everina Pieternella Hoogerdyk
    … to work hard. After my brother’s visit Pete thought about it for a few days and decided that we should go. It took over one year before all … was very luxurious with great dinners. We got three hot meals a day, which for Dutch people is unusual. For entertainment they showed a … passengers were seasick-all our girls and I for one, and Pete half the day. He was too busy taking the seasick bags out and throwing them in …
  • Tony, Martha Vanderheyden Family
    … take smoked horse meat, not knowing if we would have enough money or food upon our arrival to Canada. As the large crates were prepared and … although the potatoes were yellow and tasted different;  the raspberry jam tasted oily. With the lack of space, there wasn't much room to run and play …
  • The Otto Froese Family
    … and their son Justin flew to Halifax and were able to spend the day at Pier 21. It was exactly 50 years to the day that we arrived in … name, Otto Froese, on the Wall of Honour. It was a most memorable day. The displays, the film, the train, everything was very, very … 39, my stepsister Ruth 20 , I was 7, my brothers Peter (turned 5 that day) and Dirk 2, and my little sister Ute was 10 months old. Our nanny …
  • Movement of War Brides and Their Children through Pier 21
    … 1910 Immigration Act that allowed for the admission to Canada of bona fide agriculturalists who had sufficient means to commence farming in …
  • Arturo Isa Susan Rosanna Scotti
    … Arturo Isa Susan Rosanna Scotti …