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The trauma of a long quarantine stripped a young Michael Frederiksen of his languages. Michael left Denmark with his family and arrived in Canada in late June of 1951 while the epidemic was raging. Not long after, he contracted it. “The summer of ’51 was devastating,” Michael wrote. “Canada had not …
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Pier 21 today, as it was in years past, is a building. For visitors past and present, some find this site unmoving. They give little thought to what the walls and their surroundings have seen. For others, the site is precious and represents a new beginning in a country that they love. These …
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“We’ll Meet Again”: The Gracie Fields Story …
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Bill One day, a letter simply addressed to “Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia,” arrived on my desk. The first line read, “I don’t know if anyone is ever going to read this.” In his letter, Bill Pineo described the experience of being a young soldier in 1940, waiting for his ship to depart from Pier 21 …
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A young Martin Christensen (left), a young Catherine Christensen (right). We hear innumerable stories about seasickness from our Museum visitors who crossed the Atlantic and first arrived at Pier 21. They all laugh about it now, but frequently add that they haven’t been on a ship since and have no …
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Almost half a million Canadian military personnel departed from Pier 21 to serve overseas during the Second World War. This image depicts one of the first arrivals of a troop ship carrying soldiers back to Canada after World War II. A young Dave Campbell, with his mother, welcomes Canadian troops …
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I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but when a 6-year-old named Muriel met an 8-year-old named Bud, something special started. The pair, who have now been married for 61 years, recently visited the Museum. In all those years they have never exchanged material gifts; they have always done …
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Peter Biesheuvel and his son Brian visited the Museum early on a Saturday morning. I told my husband that I would meet them at 9:30 a.m., show them around the exhibit and leave when they went into the 10 a.m. multimedia film screening, thus returning the car to him by 10:30 a.m. Well, Peter, Brian …
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Accepting applications The Ruth Goldbloom Educational Bursary Fund is intended to defray the costs of transportation and/or accommodation to enable Canadian youth to visit the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Specifically, it is to support school groups and organized youth groups (such as …
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