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  • The Museum is a March-Break Must-Do
    … if you can find the right things to do. And, because the week is sponsored by Emera, everything we're offering this March Break is complimentary , including: Movement programming Cooking workshops …
  • Tony, Martha Vanderheyden Family
    … I remember watching the man make them. My father decided it would be a good idea to take smoked horse meat, not knowing if we would have … along with her because she was still a small baby. The TB testing came out fine as well as news that Mom was two months pregnant. Besides my …
  • Historical Thinking (7) : Ethical Dimensions
    … When historians take a historical perspective, they must also remain mindful of the responsibilities they have as scholars to … events and must understand the difference between what they know to be common ethical ground in contemporary society with what constituted … past historical events, historians oftentimes do not remain neutral. Good historical scholarship does not ignore or attempt to whitewash …
  • Albert Samuel Davis
    … typical of a time when family and child poverty and the lack of any social safety net combined to make it socially acceptable at that time … in Barnardo's records as being 'very lazy', 'drunken', and 'a good-for-nothing fellow' who "hadn't worked for months", with no fixed abode, living in lodging …
  • Frederick Thomas Davis
    … typical of a time when family and child poverty and the lack of any social safety net combined to make it socially acceptable at that time … in Barnardo's records as being 'very lazy', 'drunken', and 'a good-for- nothing fellow' who "hadn't worked for months", with no fixed abode, living in lodging …
  • Ivano and Giuseppina Ciccone
    … My Dad died in WWII. I got married on March 5th, 1955 to my beautiful bride Josephina. We … short. I started working full time in Port Colborne, Ontario... We had a 2nd child and life was good. Our 2 boys grew up healthy and they both got married. We have 5 …
  • Daphne Barber Jensen
    … of the Plaque commemorating war brides and children on August 26, 2000 at Pier 21, a lovely visit! …
  • Vanessa Martins
    … job here,” because we had read a French woman’s blog saying how she also immigrated to Quebec and worked at a small store. She said it was … I ‘m going to do this.” It had been about 3 hours since we had gotten off the plane. I asked the cashier: “Do you need help?” (gesturing) She … months later, she began working in a bookstore. Her husband Clayton completed his doctorate and now works in a Montreal laboratory. At the …
  • Demetre Agiotis
    … Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: June 7, 1965 - Demetre; January 26, 1962 - Marie …
  • John, Ellen, Philip, Ann McDermott
    … Philip, Ann McDermott It was the summer of 1951, when John 28 Ellen 26 Philip 2 and six months and Ann 6 months landed at Pier 21 on board … The Irish immigrant story of the McDermott's is long and filled with joy, work and thanks to a welcoming country that made it possible. …

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