• Umbertinese
    … With teary eyes, on February 23 the Umbertinese family left Italy via Napoli. The journey was exhausting for all and when they finally … snow and the very cold weather. Somehow, they were able to make their way to the train station even though they did not speak a word of … Gaetano said to his family that this is English bread and to this day the family refers to white loaf bread as English bread. After two …
  • 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees
    … Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
  • Jean Shephard Laffin
    … PIER 21 : Recollections by Jean Laffin (Nee Shephard), War Bride 1944 My association with Canadians started … to a women’s group called, The Women’s Own. They had their meetings on Wednesday afternoons. We children would go in after school just in time … days was 14 years old. Unless parents were well off enough to pay for high school fees, or smart enough to pass the entrance exams. (I guess …
  • The Children’s Trunks
    … Since the Museum opened in 1999 we have been collecting stories, pictures, interviews and friends. Re-imagining the Pier 21 exhibit has given us a chance to bring some of the chapters in the site’s history to life by … video and clothing (and some items that our young visitors can play with). Ausma Levalds Rowberry Credit: Canadian Museum of …
  • Francesco and Rosaria
    … story is written by Francesco's eldest daughter Mary Grace Harris, nee Maria Grazia Natoli. My father Francesco Natoli was born in Sicily … would send him back to Italy and not sponsor him any longer. The next day he went searching for a job on foot as he did not have enough money … one Doting privileges and honour solely to sons. United in marriage come thick or thin Till death do you part and ne'er to sin. To keep you …
  • Walter Martin Kleinwort
    … worked, my father with his sense of adventure wanted to make his own way in a country that held a certain kind of mystic for him. Father … the latter half of March. However, much to his family's surprise, a day after their departure Father unexpectedly appeared back at his … and shovels Father and his best friend were put to work along the railway line that threaded its way through the Rockies. Somewhat dismayed, …
  • Never Ever Give Up by Bipasha
    Time 0:04:18 Transcript Perhaps growing up in a military lifestyle gave me the courage to face new environments and an adventurous spirit to explore the world. And yet, never in my wildest dreams had I imagined that one day I would be travelling halfway across the world all on my own. But as …
  • Sarah Theresa Roberts
    … arrival of their first daughter, Moira Audrey Mackay, who was born on D-Day in London. Sarah always spoke of walking to the hospital carrying … first born, entered the sea for the long voyage to Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sarah spoke of rough waters & a time when baby Moira fell … was scarce & her parents were arguing over whom should have the last egg. While her parents tried selflessly to give it to each other, Sarah …
  • Maria and Frank D'Ambrosio
    … Italy. I remember tasting the soft white bread for the first time. We were on the train headed for our two day train ride to Toronto. When the server came around with his bread, …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    Sketch of the Woodside Tavern by Mary Louise Doyle. Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern is a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be …