• The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada
    … 32 pairs of children’s shoes, cast in bronze, dot a 165 km trail in Ireland known as the National Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks … with their English landlord, they had been evicted from their homes. Accompanied by a bailiff, they marched towards Dublin and were boarded … Credit: User AlanMc on en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. A sombre Anniversary This year marks the 175 th anniversary of …
  • Saputo Family commemorates arrival in Canada with $1M donation to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
    … August 22, 2018 Halifax, NS   Saputo Family commemorates arrival in Canada with $1M donation to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Arriving from Sicily and … Saputo Hall is a hub of activity where public and educational programs come to life and visitors gather for exhibition openings and guided …
  • Datta and Pat Saungikar
    … after 5 years at her own request due to marriage and emigrating to Canada. Due to the restrictions in the Indian Navy about marrying … Ontario and their reply was- if you can be in Canada by February 28th- you have a job! He returned to UK at Christmas and after getting … interview and medical etc., in Leeds, they sailed on February 9th, 1962 on the R.M.S. Sylvania, from Liverpool to Halifax. The …
  • Ways to Give
    … Giving Adding the Museum to your will is a simple process with a lasting impact. Pier 21 Club Donate $2100+ annually and join our leadership giving circle. Sobey Wall of Honour Commemorate the arrival of your family to Canada with a plaque on the Sobey Wall of Honour Wadih M. Fares Wall of Tribute Recognize the contributions of your community or cultural groups or of an embassy or …
  • Renate Hoffmann Rooke
    … to bring to Canada. We boarded the ship named Arosa Kulm, on February 17th, 1953. March 6th was a very warm night on the ocean. When we arrived in Halifax on …
  • The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada
    … 32 pairs of children’s shoes, cast in bronze, dot a 165 km trail in Ireland known as the National Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks … with their English landlord, they had been evicted from their homes. Accompanied by a bailiff, they marched towards Dublin and were boarded … Credit: User AlanMc on en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. A sombre Anniversary This year marks the 175 th anniversary of …
  • Angelo Cuoppolo
    … 24, 1954 Ship Name: Roma Port of Entry: Halifax Age on Arrival: 19 At the age of 19 in April of 1954 Angelo Cuoppolo left his home town of … had only been told of Toronto by their father Giovanni, who had come to Canada in his youth to work and help support his family back home. …
  • Stories - Netherlands
    … Flietstra Bellsmith Lina Douwasma Jack de Vries Peter van der Horden Connie A.H. Uyterlinde Family Stories Toon and Trees Maas Johannes Kreeft and Elizabeth Kreeft-Meijers Everina Pieternella Hoogerdyk Corrie J. Douma Arie and Tiny Bor Abe Baanstra Eric … van Tiggelen William and Christine Stoffer Johanna Schel Anton and Paula Rouss Martin O. Kloet Cathy Bos Dennis Teitsma Mary and Leonard …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … timeline is full of information about the histories of peoples in the lands we now know as Canada, and presented in a way you won’t find … Jan Raska, who served as principal writer for the non-Indigenous content of the timeline. “We wanted timeline visitors to [be able to] … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … timeline is full of information about the histories of peoples in the lands we now know as Canada, and presented in a way you won’t find … Jan Raska, who served as principal writer for the non-Indigenous content of the timeline. “We wanted timeline visitors to [be able to] … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of …