• Historic Pier 21
    … attracting high-profile visitors including the Prime Minister of the day, Sir Robert Borden. [2] Undertaken in 1915, just after the outbreak … later simply called the “annex”. During the peak years of Pier 21’s operations, the immigration and customs departments enjoyed … newcomers per year between 1931 and 1938. [20] Nevertheless, Pier 21’s immigration staff remained busy during the war, notably in dealing …
  • A Sympathetic Interest in the Plight of Refugees: World Refugee Year in Canada
    … the United Nations, specifically the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Relief and Works … Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), and the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM), in collaboration with various … unite efforts in addressing a significant issue for the international community, namely the refugee crisis involving Europe’s postwar …
  • Dennis Teitsma Annie vd.Zee Teitsma
    … Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get … as a spinning wheel. Mom was an avid knitter and seamstress. With a sheep and two goats, I practically grew up on goats’ milk. At times we … hand, who lived in a city, was eight years old in the winter of 1944-45 and slowly turning black from the lack of proper food. As a …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 2
    … 2020) Immigration through the Port of Quebec during the 1920s In the 1920s, the Port of Quebec’s primary function became grain export. … The Canadian Red Cross organized an immigration nursery. By the early 1920s, immigration officials and service agencies often served over … facility was often at the mercy of city infrastructure. In the 1920s, officials reported that during the height of passenger traffic …
  • Gentlemen’s Agreement, 1908
    … they concluded it was necessary to co-operate with Canada in order to maintain good relations with the British Empire. [5] Japan agreed to …
  • Settling the West: Immigration to the Prairies from 1867 to 1914
    … (Updated January 28, 2022) Introduction: The Immigration Boom to the Canadian West From 1867 to 1914, the Canadian West became home to millions of immigrant settlers seeking a … resulting immigration boom created key industries still important to Canada’s international role – like agriculture, mining, and oil . The …
  • Vincenzo Caccioppoli
    … "In Search Of A Better Life..." What was he thinking of that day in the summer of 1951 as he stood motionless looking out over the … Gulf of Naples? With the warm and passionate rays of "O Sole Mio" guiding him up the ramp and onto the deck of the great ship," The … arrived at a very tiny train station in New Hamburg, Ontario after a 14-day journey across the Atlantic. He carried his only worldly …
  • Strategic Winter Port: A History of the Port of Saint John
    … 20, 2020) Introduction: Establishing a Port at the Mouth of the St. John River Before the arrival of Europeans, the Wolastoqiyik (also … the mouth of the Wolastoq River. As part of the Pierre Du Gua, Sieur de Monts expedition, Samuel de Champlain “discovered” the river and … mouth of the St. John River, only had about 140 inhabitants. In the 1780s, some 15,000 Loyalists from the United States were offered land …
  • The Beginning of a Story Museum
    … the voices of four dynamic storytellers are heard above the rest. The Storytellers A veteran who became an immigration officer, a … story starts in 1942 when a 21-year-old RCAF Flying Officer from St. Anselme, New Brunswick, marched through Pier 21 and onto the Queen …
  • H.F. Leuteritz
    … Immigrants) found on the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 website. Herman Leuteritz (1920-2008) Account of Immigration to Canada … who had worked with me at the U.S. Department of Justice (in Munich) (she was an editor, correcting any mistakes in our translations which … the international boarder (one had to wait TWO years for that). Next day, a Monday, I reported to Mr. Cannon at the immigration office. He …