• Soccer and Belonging: Sport and Adaptation in Canadian Migration
    … By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian Like Canada, soccer is beautiful…anyone can do anything. There are no restrictions, and if there are restrictions, they can be challenged, like in a soccer match. Like Canada, soccer can make … Soccer and Belonging: Sport and Adaptation in Canadian Migration …
  • Audrey Pratt
    … of the war years and their early days in Canada. Name: Audrey (nee Smith) Pratt Parents: Dorothy (nee Robinson) and Samuel Smith … of Dover. I could even tell by the sound of their engines that they were the enemy. It had a different drone of the engine. You could see …
  • Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on the model. Trash Cans and Baggage Adding waste bins to the model might seem something of …
  • Children of the Pier: Adolescent Experiences of Arrival and Process
    … across Canada. Whether they arrived as immigrants or refugees by way of family reunification, private sponsorship, or …
  • John and Gertrude Martens
    … to London, then took bus to Southampton and left on the 17th of March. We boarded the ship, Aquitania, for Canada. Arrived at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on March 22, 1948. (This day is special for me for two reasons: freedom day in Canada and, my …
  • Canada’s Oppressed Minority Policy and the Resettlement of Ugandan Asians, 1972-1973
    … resettlement of over 6,000 Ugandan Asians during 1972-1973 paved the way for future refugee programs including the admission of over 77,000 … by the time you get anywhere near they say ‘Oh no, it’s closed now. Come tomorrow.’ So people were really, really completely … they start behaving like animals. [8] On 18 August 1972, the British High Commission appealed to Western countries for assistance in getting …
  • Soldat Albert Payeur
    … army: August 27, 1945. He disembarked at Juno Beach two weeks after D-Day, advanced inland for six weeks, taken prisoner of war near Falaise … He was liberated April 13, 1945. After a rehab period, he returned via the Queen Mary to New York, then to Québec and then to Welland …
  • Margaret Van Toen
    … MRS. GOLDBLOOM Now, let's head over to the Resource Centre where you can look up more information about your own family's trip. There are … lists. The staff there will be able to help you. The students leave via stage left. Meanwhile on the other side of stage, an official points towards the Immigration area to where another Immigration …
  • Do Business With Us
    … Current Opportunities The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is committed to procure goods and services based on best overall value. … of Canada (1990, c.3). Retrieved from the Department of Justice Canada website: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/M-13.4/index.html …
  • The Otto Froese Family
    … 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 day that we arrived in … name, Otto Froese, on the Wall of Honour. It was a most memorable day. The displays, the film, the train, everything was very, very …