Skip to main content
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Countless Journeys. One Canada.
  • Facility Rentals
  • Boutique
FR

Main Menu

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
  • Visit
    Visit +

    Visit

    • Plan Your Visit
    • Hours & Admission Prices
    • Location & Parking
    • Guided Tours
    • Group Reservations
    • Accessibility
  • Exhibitions
    Exhibitions +

    Exhibitions

    • Exhibitions
    • Travelling Exhibitions
    • Community Presents
  • Events
    Events +

    Events

    • Events & Programs
    • Artist in Residence
  • Learn
    Learn +

    Learn

    • Education Groups
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • Discoveries for Everyone
  • Research
    Research +

    Research

    • Immigration Records
    • Immigration History
    • Historic Pier 21
    • Oral History
  • Collections
    Collections +

    Collections

    • Search the Collection
    • About the Collection
    • Reproductions, Use and Loans
    • Donations to the Collection
  • Support
    Support +

    Support

    • Your Donation
    • Ways to Give
    • Donor Impact
    • Search the Virtual Walls
    • Sobey Wall of Honour
    • Wall of Service
    • Wadih M. Fares Wall of Tribute
  • About
    About +

    About

    • About the Museum
    • Accessibility Plan & Feedback Process
    • Governance & Corporate Reports
    • Media Centre
    • Do Business With Us
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Welcome Home to Canada
    • Volunteer
    • Staff Directory
  • Facility Rentals
  • Boutique
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Countless Journeys. One Canada.
  • Facility Rentals
  • Boutique
FR
  1. Home

  • Advantages for Immigrants in Canada with Happy Ending by Henry
    Time 0:05:05 Transcript In 1958, I left Hong Kong for London, England, to study a nursing program. The program is the best nursing program in the world. The British trained nurses had the best nursing skills in world. The nurse can work can work in most of the Commonwealth countries. Having …
  • Behind the Story by Kathy
    Time 0:03:34 Transcript Growing up, my parents would always bring me along to the restaurant. I remember sitting at the back table and drawing pictures or peeling carrots in my own little world. I would always go there after school where I ate and did my homework. It was a lot of fun. The employees …
  • Missing My Mother As I Make My Home in Canada by Amarjit
    Time 0:03:04 Transcript My childhood was in Nairobi, Kenya where my first memories are of growing up with loving parents doting neighbors and children of my age. I lived in a flat with my parents and my brother. The big house had five other flats and all of my neighbors doted on the only little …
  • The Life of a Can-Haitian by Fraser
    Time 0:02:29 Transcript The Haitian civil war was raging during the years around my birth in Port-au-Prince in 1990. My mother was forced to place me in the care of an orphanage called the Rainbow of Love. I was blessed with the fortune of being adopted by 2 amazing parents. They also adopted …
  • What is Meaningful Life by Theresa
    Time 0:04:40 Transcript My hometown is a little town which is in Guangdong province, which is in southern part of China, where there is lots of people immigrated to Canada because the golden rush and railroad construction around nineteenth century. When I grew up, people around me started to …
  • One World, No Borders by Saeid
    Time 0:04:01 Transcript I, originally, am from the west northern part of Iran, the country mostly known as Persia in the history. Iran is a multinational and diverse country consist of different “nations” like Fars’, Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, etc. It is normal to be anywhere having different …
  • My Boy, He is Seventeen by Lu
    Time 0:03:20 Transcript I was born and raised in Shanghai; I graduated from university in 1989, fortunately, I had my education free, and I was guaranteed job. My wife and I experienced China’s economy take off and we benefited from that growth, but not always. In 2011, we took one month and half …
  • Bufis, Resettlement by Khadar
    Time 0:03:34 Transcript I was born in Somalia in 1981. By 1991 Somalia had a civil war. We ran to the nearest peaceful country which was Kenya. My parents brought us to a refugee camp in the north east province of Kenya. Our hopes in that camp were to be resettled to developed countries or for our …
  • Looking for Identity by Keyvan
    Time 0:04:49 Transcript My Father came from Iran to Kuwait in 1957 to start a business. So I was born & raised in Kuwait but with an Iranian passport. My family was Bahai, a religious minority in both Iran and Kuwait. As an Iranian resident in Kuwait I went to an Iranian school. At that time there …
  • Here & Now by Kate
    Time 0:02:52 Transcript I didn't know how cold it would be in Canada until our arriving in the winter of 2007. In that December, we received winter storms almost every week; people wore heavy boots and thick coats, streets were piled up with snow like grey walls. Coming from Taiwan where we have …

Pagination

  • « First First page
  • ‹ Previous Previous page
  • …
  • 751
  • 752
  • 753
  • 754
  • 755
  • 756
  • 757
  • 758
  • 759
  • …
  • Next › Next page
  • Last » Last page
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • TripAdvisor

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
© 2025 All Rights Reserved.
1055 Marginal Road, Halifax NS B3H 4P7
T: 902-425-7770 • F: 902-423-4045
Toll Free: 1-855-526-4721 • info@pier21.ca

  • Weddings
  • Event Planners
  • Shop
  • Media Enquiries
  • Contact Us
  • Accessibility Plan
  • Privacy Policy
  • Take Down Policy
  • Terms and Conditions

Symbol of the Canadian Government