• COVID-19: Staying Safe
    … As we re-open to the public, we ask you to work with us to keep the Museum … is closely following public health guidelines as outlined by the Nova Scotia Department of Health. All visitors are required to wear a … under 2 are exempt, as well as children 2 to 4 when their caregiver can't get them to wear a mask. People with a valid medical reason for …
  • Borders, Groups, Statistics: Researching Immigrant Arrival at Pier 21
    … no longer exists? While the Scotiabank Family History Centre at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 does not hold copies of all … records on microfilm , and information on all ports of entry into Canada. There remain some misconceptions about the nature of these … comprehensive book of names and signatures of every person who entered Canada through a port of entry. In the past, ship manifests and …
  • Who Is Admissible? Immigrant Desirability and Immigration Acts since Confederation
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 9, 2020) In May 2015, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 opened new … history of immigration to Canada. This blog is based on research that informs new displays regarding the history of immigration to Canada. Introduction As part of the … Who Is Admissible? Immigrant Desirability and Immigration Acts since Confederation …
  • The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    … difficult. For example, British subjects from India or the West Indies could claim privileged legal status in Canada, despite being … twentieth century. Settlers from Oklahoma arriving in Canada in 1911 complained of disenfranchisement, theft of property, and refusal of … bitter race hatred…” [8] C.A. Speers, tasked to report on “negro colonies” in Canada for the immigration department, commented on the …
  • There's more to this book than recipes
    … artifact in the exhibition stands out: A handwritten recipe book compiled by Rebecca Teitelbaum, a Belgian Jewish woman imprisoned in … a camp where everyone had been pulled out of their homes and thousands died of starvation, collecting familiar recipes conjured and preserved … among the recipes featured on the eat make share page of the Museum's website . A reproduction of the recipe book, showing Rebecca's Orange …
  • There's more to this book than recipes
    … artifact in the exhibition stands out: A handwritten recipe book compiled by Rebecca Teitelbaum, a Belgian Jewish woman imprisoned in … a camp where everyone had been pulled out of their homes and thousands died of starvation, collecting familiar recipes conjured and preserved … among the recipes featured on the eat make share page of the Museum's website . A reproduction of the recipe book, showing Rebecca's Orange …
  • Edith Metcalfe Wallace
    … Wallace, War Bride June 29, 1922 - Nov 29, 2010 My mother was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire on June 29, 1922, the third child of Esther … boy, she said. In late November 1944 Mother travelled to Richmond (in Yorkshire) to attend a friend’s wedding. She had been sent to … at nearby Catterick Camp, joined the wedding party at the King’s Head Inn (now the King’s Head Hotel). My father, who grew up in Port Arthur …
  • Annual Reports and Quarterly Financial Reports
    Annual Reports Annual Report 2024 - 2025 Annual Report 2023 - 2024 Annual Report 2022 - 2023 Archived Annual Reports Annual Report 2021 - 2022 Annual Report 2020 - 2021 Annual Report 2019 - 2020 Annual Report 2018 - 2019 Annual Report 2017 - 2018 Annual Report 2016 - 2017 Annual Report 2015 - 2016 …
  • Karen and Canadian - Bwe Doh Soe
    Life in Canada Time 1:45 Transcript Well, I, right now, I feel like I’m becoming more like a half of Canadian I guess, because I get, because I’ve been here long enough to adopt the culture now, so. But, maybe if you were asking those questions earlier, like two years or three, I would answer …
  • Francesco and Rosaria
    … story is written by Francesco's eldest daughter Mary Grace Harris, nee Maria Grazia Natoli. My father Francesco Natoli was born in Sicily and my mother Rosaria Capobianco was born in a small town in … would send him back to Italy and not sponsor him any longer. The next day he went searching for a job on foot as he did not have enough money …