• Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    Sketch of the Woodside Tavern by Mary Louise Doyle. Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern is a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be …
  • Looking for Nepalese food and heavy metal? Try “Dartmouth’s Oldest Bar.”
    Sketch of the Woodside Tavern by Mary Louise Doyle. Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern is a simple building in the parking lot of a shopping plaza— a small island of brick in a sea of asphalt and parked cars. With dartboards, pool tables, and long tables lined with rows of wooden chairs, it claims to be …
  • The Children’s Trunks
    … and friends. Re-imagining the Pier 21 exhibit has given us a chance to bring some of the chapters in the site’s history to life by … video and clothing (and some items that our young visitors can play with). Ausma Levalds Rowberry Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [2013.1912.24] Ausma Levalds …
  • Joyce Margaret Pinnow
    … for family feasts. Growing up, Joyce took tap dancing lessons and she loved to read -a hobby that continued throughout her life. She was … On one trip to the Maritimes, Joyce’s group of war brides had the chance to sail on the Blue Nose II and visited their original landing …
  • Stories - Netherlands
    Stories in Dutch Dad's Story Dad's Story (English) Children's Stories AE Didi Murphy Willem Kreeft Josephine Keyzer Sietske Flietstra Bellsmith Lina Douwasma Jack de Vries Peter van der Horden Connie A.H. Uyterlinde Family Stories Toon and Trees Maas Johannes Kreeft and Elizabeth Kreeft-Meijers …
  • Nicolangelo Romano
    … routes from the same small town to Canada. In 1953 after an eleven-day journey aboard the small Greek liner the Nea Hellas, I arrived at … Mary’s father had travelled to the United States for work in the early 1900s and had obtained his American citizenship making Mary an American citizen when she was born in Italy. She had to arrive in the States before she …
  • My Father’s Music - Ilse Thompson
    … Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · My Father’s Music Time 0:03:48 Transcript …
  • No Chop Suey in China - and other food stories
    … Chinatown. What were these dishes, she wondered. Why were they so common in Canadian Chinese restaurants, and what was their origin? … were created by people who were not necessarily cooks, using the ingredients available to them and trying to cater to a North American palate. Chinese men, who had come to North America initially for the Gold Rush and later as …
  • Maria Marrone
    … MARIA MARRONE Born: Maria Di Girolamo August 25, 1933 Fossacessia, Italy Immigration: 1956 Date of Departure: April 14, 1956, … like the bygone generations; women carried the same baskets; and the fisherman harvested the waters with the trabocchetti of their …
  • Quotes - Life in Canada
    … “Two days later I, my younger brother and sister was sent of to a small … summer for year’s. In the wintertime my sister and I went into the fishery. But that didn’t last to long (not enough money). At 14 I was … under the principal’s desk when mom brought us to school that first day. I do remember crying while mom towed me down the hall to the …