• Herman Newman
    … that was so dear to Herman's heart. Every year on Remembrance Day he would make a pilgrimage to the Pier. He would gaze over the …
  • “This Is An Emotional Place” - The Notes They Left Behind
    … Persons and political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags … the tags link visitors to the building’s past, they are also a way to communicate through time to the future. A message might be read by …
  • “This Is An Emotional Place” - The Notes They Left Behind
    … Persons and political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags … the tags link visitors to the building’s past, they are also a way to communicate through time to the future. A message might be read by …
  • Beulah Cynthia Searle
    … I arrived at Pier 21, November 6, 1946 after a ten day Sea Voyage on the Empire Brent. I travelled by train to London, …
  • Ship Arrival Database
    … Dates are scheduled arrival dates, so they are occasionally off by a day or two if the ship arrived early or late. Please note, the database …
  • Margie Gouleff Vassos
    … family who took me under their wing, crossing the ocean in nine days and arriving in Halifax on November 27, 1951. A two day train trip brought me to Union Station in Toronto where I was met …
  • Lucy Carmen Burrows
    … arrived in Halifax at Pier 21 on August 13, 1946. Then she had a five day trip to Saskatoon where she was meeting with her husband and …
  • Recreating a homeland: Czechoslovak diplomats in Canada during the Second World War
    by Jan Raska, Ph.D., Historian In the 1920s, immigrants from Czechoslovakia came to Canada in search of industrial work and available land for agriculture. Czechoslovakia’s diplomats in Canada promoted loyalty to Prague’s policies in the hopes that Slovaks and Czechs would unite into a …
  • Humanitarian Gesture: Canada and the Tibetan Resettlement Program, 1971–5
    … Raska, PhD, Historian In 1966, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) lobbied Canadian officials to accept … northern India. Read Jan Raska’s article , Humanitarian Gesture: Canada and the Tibetan Resettlement Program, 1971–5 , published in the … Humanitarian Gesture: Canada and the Tibetan Resettlement Program, 1971–5 …
  • Domenico Ciolfitto
    … After thirteen days at sea, we finally arrived in Halifax, Canada; myself, my mother, my grandmother and my younger brother Tony. The day that we arrived was also my 13th birthday and to me 13 is always and remains my favourite number. It's been a …