Pier 21

Author : Steven Schwinghamer,Jan Raska
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776631387

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Pier 21 by Steven Schwinghamer,Jan Raska Pdf

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after service overseas during the Second World War. In the immediate postwar period, Pier 21 became the busiest ocean port of entry in the country. Today, people across Canada still enjoy connections to Pier 21 through family history and stories of arrival at the site. Since 1998, researchers at the Pier 21 Interpretive Centre and now the Canadian Museum of Immigration have been conducting interviews, reviewing archival materials, gathering written stories, and acquiring photographs, documents, and other objects reflecting the history of Pier 21. Pier 21: A History builds upon the resulting collection. It presents a history of this important Canadian ocean immigration facility during its years of operation and later emergence as a site of public commemoration. Published in English. Also available in French: Quai 21: Une histoire.

Author : Anne Renaud
Publisher : Lobster Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1897073704

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Pier 21 by Anne Renaud Pdf

(ages 8 - 12) Award-winning children's author, Anne Renaud, delivers another important chapter of Canada's history to young readers. From 1928 to 1971, a cavernous shed-like building stood in Halifax harbour, welcoming more than one million newcomers to Canada. It also was the last view of home seen by close to 500,000 Canadian service personnel, as they sailed off to battle during World War II. Across its threshold came the ebb and flow of home children and guest children, soldiers and war brides, refugees and displaced persons, carried to and from its doors by ocean liners, military ships and small sailing vessels. For many, seeing the cluster of buildings known as Pier 21 meant that their new lives were beginning. This is a chronicle of Pier 21 and of those who passed through, some on their way to foreign lands to fight for freedom, and others on their way to becoming part of the growing nation of Canada.

Author : Christine Welldon
Publisher : Nimbus Pub Limited
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1551099098

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Listen to My Story by Christine Welldon Pdf

Presents a history of immigration to Canada between 1928 and 1971 through the experiences of nine families who came from as far away as Italy and the Ukraine by boat and arrived at Halifax's Pier 21 to begin new lives.

Author : Steven Schwinghamer,Jan Raska
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776631370

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Pier 21 by Steven Schwinghamer,Jan Raska Pdf

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after service overseas during the Second World War. In the immediate postwar period, Pier 21 became the busiest ocean port of entry in the country. Today, people across Canada still enjoy connections to Pier 21 through family history and stories of arrival at the site. Since 1998, researchers at the Pier 21 Interpretive Centre and now the Canadian Museum of Immigration have been conducting interviews, reviewing archival materials, gathering written stories, and acquiring photographs, documents, and other objects reflecting the history of Pier 21. Pier 21: A History builds upon the resulting collection. It presents a history of this important Canadian ocean immigration facility during its years of operation and later emergence as a site of public commemoration. Published in English. Also available in French: Quai 21: Une histoire.

Author : Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1150951932

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Pier 21 by Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic Pdf

Author : Samra Zafar,Meg Masters
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443454872

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A Good Wife by Samra Zafar,Meg Masters Pdf

She faced years of abuse after arriving in Canada as a teenage bride in a hastily arranged marriage, but nothing could stop Samra Zafar from pursuing her dreams At 15, Samra Zafar had big dreams for herself. She was going to go to university, and forge her own path. Then with almost no warning, those dreams were pulled away from her when she was suddenly married to a stranger at 17 and had to leave behind her family in Pakistan to move to Canada. Her new husband and his family promised that the marriage and the move would be a fulfillment of her dream, not a betrayal of it. But as the walls of their home slowly became a prison, Samra realized the promises were empty ones. In the years that followed she suffered her husband’s emotional and physical abuse that left her feeling isolated, humiliated and assaulted. Desperate to get out, and refusing to give up, she hatched an escape plan for herself and her two daughters. Somehow she found the strength to not only build a new future, but to walk away from her past, ignoring the pleas of her family and risking cultural isolation by divorcing her husband. But that end was only the beginning for Samra. Through her academic and career achievements, she has gone on to become a mentor and public speaker, connecting with people around the world from isolated women in situations similar to her own, to young schoolgirls in Kenya who never allowed themselves to dream to men making the decisions to save for their daughters’ educations instead of their dowries. A Good Wife tell her harrowing and inspiring story, following her from a young girl with big dreams, through finding strength in the face of oppression and then finally battling through to empowerment.

Author : Nhung N. Tran-Davies
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772602296

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The Doll by Nhung N. Tran-Davies Pdf

A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.

Author : Maryann Hayatian
Publisher : Butterflyanthology
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1989277675

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Alice's Pier 21 by Maryann Hayatian Pdf

Alice gets to voyage and learn changes as she sails with her family to Canada. Eager to to know everything, she finds everything genuine as she arrives to pier21 Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1963.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198850908

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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Pdf

The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.

Author : Lesley Choyce
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459745254

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Broken Man on a Halifax Pier by Lesley Choyce Pdf

Broken Man on a Halifax Pier is a tale of one man’s shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers hoping to save not only him but also themselves.

Author : Jan Raska
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555701

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Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada by Jan Raska Pdf

During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-communist and democratic values. Diplomats, industrialists, politicians, professionals, workers, and students fled to the West in search of freedom, security, and economic opportunity. Jan Raska’s Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada explores how these newcomers joined or formed ethnocultural organizations to help in their attempts to affect developments in Czechoslovakia and Canadian foreign policy towards their homeland. Canadian authorities further legitimized the Czech refugees’ anti-communist agenda and increased their influence in Czechoslovak institutions. In turn, these organizations supported Canada’s Cold War agenda of securing the state from communist infiltration. Ultimately, an adherence to anti-communism, the promotion of Canadian citizenship, and the cultivation of a Czechoslovak ethnocultural heritage accelerated Czech refugees’ socioeconomic and political integration in Cold War Canada. By analyzing oral histories, government files, ethnic newspapers, and community archival records, Raska reveals how Czech refugees secured admission as desirable immigrants and navigated existing social, cultural, and political norms in Cold War Canada.

Author : Rebecca Thomas
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774710064

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I''m Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas Pdf

Former Halifax Poet Laureate and second-generation residential school survivor Rebecca Thomas writes honestly and powerfully in this companion piece to Rita Joe's I Lost My Talk. Includes vibrant illustrations from Mi?kmaw artist Pauline Young.

Author : Irving Abella,Harold Troper
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487554415

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None Is Too Many by Irving Abella,Harold Troper Pdf

Today, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. However, between the years 1933 and 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looking for a place of refuge from Nazi persecution, Canada refused to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to those in fear for their lives. Rigorously documented and brilliantly researched, None Is Too Many tells the story of Canada’s response to the plight of European Jews during the Nazi era and its immediate aftermath, exploring why and how Canada turned its back and hardened its heart against the entry of Jewish refugees. Recounting a shameful period in Canadian history, Irving Abella and Harold Troper trace the origins and results of Canadian immigration policies towards Jews and conclusively demonstrate that the forces against admitting them were pervasive and rooted in antisemitism. First published in 1983, None Is Too Many has become one of the most significant books ever published in Canada. This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates the book’s ongoing impact on public discourse, generating debate on ethics and morality in government, the workings of Canadian immigration and refugee policy, the responsibility of bystanders, righting historical wrongs, and the historian as witness. Above all, the reader is asked: "What kind of Canada do we want to be?" This new anniversary edition features a foreword by Richard Menkis on the impact the book made when it was first published and an afterword by David Koffman explaining why the book remains critical today.

Author : Ian McKay,Robin Bates
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773537033

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In the Province of History by Ian McKay,Robin Bates Pdf

How a region sells - and misrepresents - its past

Author : Pier Vittorio Aureli
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262515795

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The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture by Pier Vittorio Aureli Pdf

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city. In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not in the conventional sense of “pure,” but to denote something that is resolutely itself after being separated from its other. In the pursuit of the possibility of an absolute architecture, the other is the space of the city, its extensive organization, and its government. Politics is agonism through separation and confrontation; the very condition of architectural form is to separate and be separated. Through its act of separation and being separated, architecture reveals at once the essence of the city and the essence of itself as political form: the city as the composition of (separate) parts. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms. Their projects for the city do not take the form of an overall plan but are expressed as an “archipelago” of site-specific interventions.