• Maria Teresa Cartaginese
    … Alumni Type: Landed Immigrant Date of Arrival: October 26, 1957 Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia …
  • Luigi Gemma Maria Giovanni Mattiuz
    … Country of Origin: Italy Date of Arrival: May 26, 1949 …
  • Bill Shaw, wife Kaye and Family
    … and Kevin (1) Shaw arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the Georgic on April 26, 1952 on Kevin's first birthday. We sailed from Southampton on April 19, 1952. Our Mum was quite sic for the first few days. On the fifth day we sailed through a terrible storm …
  • John James Vanderlee
    … Name: Zuiderkruis Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: September 26, 1952 Age on Arrival: 19 years For my first transatlantic crossing, …
  • Frederick Stubbs
    … Frederick Stubbs June 22, 1912 - April 9, 1998 I was born in Sheffield, England and was the eldest of five boys. The First Great War … after 1918 there was tremendous advertising to immigrate to Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Various government sponsored … work in Canada. My father agreed to let my brother, Sidney, and me come to Canada with the hope that after a few years we would be able to …
  • The Immigrants: The Story of a Photograph
    … in Halifax just before the First World War is one of my favourite examples of this genre of photography. We recently featured this image in a … their ship and the date are unknown. Nevertheless, the photograph is a compelling piece of history, in part thanks to the immigrants’ …
  • Artist-in-Residence Winter 2024 – Santiago Guzmán
    … to develop his play Long-Distance-Short (working title). On March 26, 2025 a local audience was treated to a participatory …
  • Stefan - London by Stefan
    … Time 0:04:26 Transcript Life before we had to leave Iraq, before the war, was pretty good. My dad had a really good … Iraq, it was very emotional for my dad and also for my grandpa. My uncles had already left Iraq. My dad was my grandpa’s only hope. But now … in a factory as a labourer. It was a hard job for him, but he never complained. I also worked there too, for one summer. When metal is …
  • Recommended Resources - Netherlands
    … Books/Articles Aberson, Jan L. From the Prairies With Hope . Canadian Plains Research Centre … in America 1609-1974 . Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1974. Delleman, Paul. The Dutch in Canada . Owen Sound, Ontario: Paul and Peter Pub. 2000. … Netherlandish Origin In the Creation of a Homogenous Population in the City of London” MA Thesis. University of Western Ontario. 1964. …
  • Massimina Dal Bello
    … Date of Arrival: May 9, 1953 Age on Arrival: 19 1/2 Both from the northern region, Treviso Italy. Massimina travelled to Canada to pursue her education. Silvano came to Canada to join his father and brother. His father worked in the mines of northern Nova …