• Giovanni Guglietti
    … was if my father could go first because you needed a relationship to come to Canada. You have to have a related person. My father, we found …
  • Thomas J. Duiverman
    … Single Men and Women July 9, 1953 – Waterman My five day journey from Rotterdam, The Netherlands on the ship SS Waterman was … earlier, this didn’t bother me. Upon landing in Halifax at Pier 21, we were sorted like cattle at a market and had to stand in long lines … Ontario. It was good that I did not understand too much English, but I can remember him using the term "S.O.B." directed at me. So I was …
  • “When Mom saw the picture, it was very emotional”
    … Maria Zampini returned to the site of her arrival in Canada, 61 years later. Tony Antonitti had already planned his trip to … a tour of the Maritimes with his wife Tina. Living in Montreal, they were looking forward to returning to the place where their parents, … of thousands of others, took their first footsteps in this country . “We really wanted to stop at the Museum in Halifax because we wanted to …
  • “When Mom saw the picture, it was very emotional”
    … Maria Zampini returned to the site of her arrival in Canada, 61 years later. Tony Antonitti had already planned his trip to … a tour of the Maritimes with his wife Tina. Living in Montreal, they were looking forward to returning to the place where their parents, … of thousands of others, took their first footsteps in this country . “We really wanted to stop at the Museum in Halifax because we wanted to …
  • John Oscar Moller
    … In Loving Memory of: John Oscar Moller Andersen So now what's left to … the SS Stavangerfjord and landed in Halifax at Pier 21, which is today the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. The purpose of the … of the contributions of immigrants to Canada’s culture, economy and way of life. Today, Oscar and his story shares a rightful place in the …
  • A Ripple in the Canadian Stream by Elva
    … guest. The next day, he came back and said to Thora: “You may as well come home with me.” She needed a place and he needed a wife. They were … still farms. The neighbours were all of Icelandic ancestry and the common language in our community was Icelandic. Afi Johann lived with us and refused to speak …
  • Anthony Athanas
    … for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … Flora, Trinidad and Tobago. Santa Flora was a town owned by an oil company and Tony’s father worked as an x-ray technician at the oil company’s medical centre. After graduation, Tony also began working for …
  • Enne and Wiebrigje Hovius
    … Early in the morning of May 8, 1953 the Hovius family, consisting of Enne and Wiebrigje and their seven children left the town of … in age from 2 - 16. In Rotterdam, the family boarded a boat called "De Waterman" and sailed for Halifax, N.S., Canada. Enne was hoping to purchase a dairy farm in Canada some day. It was extremely hard to obtain land in The Netherlands - hence, …
  • Marjorie Franklyne
    … Queen Mary. The date was August 8th, 1946 and she and young Johnnie, were stepping into a world as foreign as the accents that greeted them. … comfort of the staterooms, or even one of the lounges for that matter. "We couldn't go to our cabins, I don't know why, maybe they thought we …
  • Sounding the Bamboo by Gaehan
    … so many women, I didn’t take time for my own healing. When my mom died, the day after her burial, I had to take 30 Canadians to Korea. I …