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  • Stories of Children, War, and Family Separation in the Oral History Collection at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
    … reports, in permanent and travelling exhibitions, on the Museum’s website, and by external researchers and other third parties. We still … families as a result of war . Thelma Freedman and Monybany Monyang Dau both lived this experience, and they both shared their stories with … offer any generalizations about children, dislocation, and war. They can, however, give us insights into how individual people experience …
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    … course of an interview. The recorded document is a primary source that can be archived and made available to the public. Why does the Museum … become part of the Museum’s Oral History Collection. They are preserved and made accessible to members of the public, including … Museum exhibits, educational and interpretive materials, publications, website and social media engagement. Who can participate in an oral …
  • Uncovering secrets of the popular miniature Pier 21 model
    … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
  • Uncovering secrets of the popular miniature Pier 21 model
    … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
  • Walking by Faith by Irma
    … denied us Canadian residency. We hired a lawyer to appeal, and he recommended that we move to Toronto. In Toronto, we had to start from … again. The Ministry made a video about our story, which is on their website. Whenever possible, my husband and I give talks about … process. Now we begin a new adventure. My husband has his own company building beautiful houses, my son is in his first year of …
  • First Families of Pier 21
    … 8, 1928. There were only 54 people disembarking at Pier 21 on that day and included passengers from Holland, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, …
  • Nomaqhawe Sibanda
    … in the language.” And you know when you read the web sites for communities it is a marketing piece (laughs). So it was sold to me a … differently (laughs). And I liked the cosmopolitan feel from the website of Winnipeg and that you had people from all over the world, … something about Portage, no Main—the intersection at Main and Portage competing with Russia as the coldest spot in the world, and I thought, …
  • Immigrant Voices: Diverse Reactions to the Transatlantic Voyage from Europe to Canada’s Shores
    … and evacuee children came through its halls before setting out across the country to begin their new lives in Canada. After their arrival … This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier … war orphan Celina Lieberman arrived at Pier 21 aboard USAT General S.D. Sturgiss . In fleeing the devastation caused by five years of war …
  • Joyce Emily Callow Sherwood
    … Joyce Emily Sherwood nee Callow with tributes by her sister Gwen Milton and her … other, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes. I left England on Friday, April 3, 1947 aboard the S.S. Cunard Aquitania. We arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 10, … Joyce Emily Callow Sherwood …

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