• The tiny Lebanese village that changed the face of Halifax
    … is a village called Diman. It’s small. There are 650-700 registered residents. You can walk from one corner to the other in around 20 … neighbourhood is named after his grandson. Edward was the founding President of the Canadian Lebanon society in 1938 and was killed while … shortly after Abraham Arab. She says, “in our culture, it would be considered a sin to get married and have children if you can’t provide for …
  • The tiny Lebanese village that changed the face of Halifax
    … is a village called Diman. It’s small. There are 650-700 registered residents. You can walk from one corner to the other in around 20 … neighbourhood is named after his grandson. Edward was the founding President of the Canadian Lebanon society in 1938 and was killed while … shortly after Abraham Arab. She says, “in our culture, it would be considered a sin to get married and have children if you can’t provide for …
  • John Freeman-Marsh
    … there. WOW! It sounded like a great place to visit. Subsequently one day in August I found myself leaving home with my parents on the way to … were driven out into the country to a school with a large gymnasium. Inside there were many rows of cots, spaced about 4 feet apart, and only … had their own bunk and Squib (his nickname only 6 and smaller than I) shared a lower bunk, with our heads placed at opposite ends of the …
  • Mario Bellina
    … Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: June 7, 1957 Age on Arrival: 19 My father came to Canada as a 19- year from a town in Italy called Venzone He … how to speak English. He noticed that his friends had an ID tag that said Bassano, Alberta and his did not. He saw a person sleeping on a …
  • 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 …
  • My Dream by Yudah
    … also sing there too. One time the Karen youth in Langley did a singing competition. I signed my name on a list and they pick me. On that day I … I went back to Thailand to help my people. In my dream I don’t want to come back in Canada because all the kids in the camp want me to stay there forever but my family want me to come back in Canada. At that moment I asked my brother to make a song …
  • Gerarda and Peter Flinsenberg
    … later their youngest son Jack was born. After the end of World War II, our parents decided that Holland no longer held a future for them, … below deck. Our mother suffered seasickness for the entire ten-day trip. The Zuiderkruis docked at Pier 21 on February 12, 1952. I was … away at seventy-years young. Our father is now eighty-three and has said many times over the years he would never return to Holland. Canada …
  • More than a Building
    … Pier 21 today, as it was in years past, is a building. For visitors past and present, some find this site unmoving. They give little thought to what the walls and their surroundings have …
  • “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 … and Maria Zampini, and his Uncle Michelino and Aunt Sylvia on the day of their arrival , July 25, 1961. “When we first saw the picture, … “When Mom saw the picture, it was very emotional” …