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… Vulcania, docked at Pier 21. The anxiety and excitement of our arrival were palpable among all the passengers, but especially me – excitement … rest of the family couldn’t face seeing us leave and opted to say good bye at their house. We all knew that it was very likely that we …
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… The Otto Froese Family My son Robert and his wife Cindy attended a convention in Halifax in 2000. While there, they … my husband Bernie Feddema and their son Justin flew to Halifax and were able to spend the day at Pier 21. It was exactly 50 years to the …
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… by Carrie-Ann Smith, Vice President, Audience Engagement The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is a story museum. We collect and share the personal narratives of immigrants to Canada. …
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… Halifax to Halifax and Points West By Dorothy Schofield McIlveen On the morning of June 20, …
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… and before boarding a train, they went to a local store to buy some food for the next leg of their journey. Sliced soft Canadian … money he would have spent on bus fare. He then worked as a shoe shine boy for the next 5 years on Bay Street, working 60-hour weeks. Not just shining shoes but cleaning …
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… In the winter of 1952, at 2:00 a.m., Antonio, Renata and their sons … birth. Tullio was born in the Hotel Villa Mascagni located on Kvarner Bay. After the Second World War, the Istrian Peninsula was given to the … few men who were travelling onboard, helped many families find their way to the right trains to continue their own journeys. Renata told the …
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… I was standing in the yard with my father and others, paratroopers were jumping out of planes. Two planes were shot down before 8:00 a.m. … First I needed my parents' consent. I had to be healthy, have money to buy my transportation, etc. In a few weeks my parents gave me their …
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… Maru looms over part of our museum- a haunting memory of faces turned away by the racist immigration policies of the era. In the section of … room of Dutch immigrants on long, full benches, waiting to make their way through medical and immigration interviews and board trains to … policy. (Dutch immigrants in the new Assembly Hall at the Canadian Railways Terminal, Halifax, NS. c 1930.) Credit: Library and Archives …
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… leaving many Italian labourers stranded in Canada with no money to buy return passage to Italy. During the winter months, the seasonal …
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… My brother, Rolf, and I left from Antwerp on April 20, 1952 in the SS Leerdam, 8,854 GRT, her last port of … My brother, whose financial situation had not made it possible to buy a railway ticket further than Montreal, left me there to try and …