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  • “The New Canadian Curling Club” Sweeps Away Myths About Immigrants
    Zaynna Khalife, Ardavan Taraporewala, Linette Doherty and Howard Dai in The New Canadian Curling Club . Photo by @stoometzphoto   For a lot of people, curling is a mystery . It doesn’t look very athletically demanding, and yet - as many Canadians have discovered while flipping through TV channels - …
  • Stewed Lenga Lenga
    Lenga lenga is a leafy green and common vegetable grown in Central and Eastern Africa. It can be grown in a garden and incorporated into stews or eaten as a side dish. This recipe comes from Imelde Nduwimana who came to Canada ten years ago from Burundi after living in a refugee camp in Tanzania …
  • Second World War Mock Banana
    While bananas can be found in many grocery stores across Canada today, the vast majority of them are exported from tropical regions. Swapping bananas for locally-grown parsnips can provide a dose of fibre, vitamins and folate and could lower your carbon footprint.  Claire Felloni , CC BY-SA 4.0 , …
  • Salmonberry Crisps
    The salmonberry plant grows on the Pacific Northwest coast and has nourished and healed Indigenous communities living there for countless generations. This recipe for salmonberry crisps comes from land-based educator and poet 'Cúagilákv (Jess Housty), who has harvested salmonberries on Haíɫzaqv …
  • Mary Didur’s Perogies
    Growing up in 1930s Saskatchewan with Ukrainian parents, Mary Didur started making perogies when she was five or six years old.  She said, “the recipe has gone through so many changes…Each time it has changed hands, it has been improved. My mother probably got her recipe from her mother, in …
  • Julie Van Rosendaal’s Newfoundland-style Chow Mein
    Chow mein is a Chinese Canadian dish of fried noodles, but in Newfoundland, where noodles were historically difficult to get, it is made with cabbage cut into ribbons. In Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants (2018) author Ann Hui writes, “…from its …
  • Madame Benoît’s Quebec Tourtière
    Tourtière is a double crusted meat pie, traditionally enjoyed in Quebec during the Christmas feast called reveillon. Pork is often used, but it could include other meats or even local game, like rabbit or moose. Canadian television host Madame Benoît’s tourtière filling recipe is particularly …
  • A Welcome Sign?
    Cartoon published July 1, 1999. (Material republished with the express permission of: PNI Maritimes LP, by its general partner, PNI Maritimes GP Inc.) At the end of this month, 2024 will be over. This has been a milestone year for the Museum. 2024 marked 25 years since Pier 21 reopened to the …
  • Artist-in-Residence 2024 - Annie Valentina
    It was our great pleasure to host Annie Valentina as our playwright-in-residence summer/fall 2025. Annie holds a BA in Theatre from Dalhousie University and is a past Merritt Award nominee for her 2014 play Alien . She was formerly the Artistic Associate of Neptune Theatre, where her play Ballad of …
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