• 1973: Canada’s Response to the Chilean Refugees
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated July 6, 2020) At that time…[there were]…no buses running, it was like a strike, all the transportation. So I remember…we were scared…we didn’t know what was going on, that it’s going to …
  • Do Business With Us
    … Current Opportunities The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is committed to procure goods and services based on best overall value. … of Canada (1990, c.3). Retrieved from the Department of Justice Canada website: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/M-13.4/index.html …
  • The David Gordon Pettifer Family
    … by daughter Jane David Gordon Pettifer, his wife Sheila Doreen (Bradwell) and three children: Jane (5), Anna (4) and Bob (3) took the train … the Kawarthas. My parents had both served in the British Army during WWII and never regretted the move here. They became proud Canadians and …
  • Janet Thomson Boyle, daughter Beth
    … Isabella (Ella), and brother, Raeburn (Rae), especially after the death of their elder brother, Robert, in 1934. In 1940 she began … in the war and away from their own families to the Thomson home for Sunday dinner and Douglas, the 19-year-old Canadian, became a regular … at St. David’s on July 2 (the Sunday nearest Canada’s Dominion Day) wearing a robe made by one of Jan’s friends, cut from her own …
  • Max Margarete Hans Chris Schlechta
    … two world wars and the turmoil, destruction, and hunger that followed. But my father had an excellent job and a promising career, and by … Germany was so that his children would be free from war, with no chance of Hans ever being drafted into the military. He was right, too. …
  • Mennonites and Canadian Accommodation
    … a decade of military reform, and in particular the growing threat of compulsory military service. [3] In that environment, it is … from any military service.” The agreement also featured several other points of conscience: religious freedom, educational liberties, and … The migration drew notice from the UK Secretary of State for the Colonies, Winston Churchill, who was advised regarding the movement by …
  • Charles J. Lutton
    … Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
  • Eminently Suitable for Our Purposes: Official Commemoration of Immigrant Arrivals in Canada, 1949-1972
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian … “Canada’s 50,000th DP Starts New Life in New Home,” Globe and Mail , 26 February 1949, 17. Oral History with Ausma Levalds Rowberry, … and Mail , 12 January 1954, 15. “Missing Millionth,” Globe and Mail , 26 May 1954, 6. “Missing Millionth.” Badgley, “As Long as He is an …
  • This is Home Now by Asha
    … my mom was not accepting of girls joining teams. My mom’s thought of coming to Canada was to leave the violence in Somalia for a safer place … game she complimented on how well I did. This time she listened to my points. She agreed that I could play as long as it does not get in between my studies. My mom was able to witness me fulfill that promise during my …
  • Journey of Wawel Treasures to Canada
    … for safekeeping. Travelling by peasant’s carts, by trucks and by commandeered barge through the war-torn countryside of Poland, the … staff elected to remove the treasures to France. Szczerbiec, the medieval Polish coronation sword. Credit: Consulate of the Republic of … and Stanislaw Zaleski throughout this odyssey, and, as Gordon Swager points out in his study, The Strange Odyssey of Poland’s National …