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  • Non-fiction
  • 2020

Pier 21

a history

Steven Schwinghamer, (1976-)

Jan Raska

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"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. This book 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."--

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Title Statement Pier 21: a history / Steven Schwinghamer and Jan Raska.
Series Mercury series. History
Author Schwinghamer, Steven, 1976-
Additional Contributors Raska, Jan
Publication Ottawa, Ontario: Gatineau, QC: Halifax, N.S.: University of Ottawa Press ;Canadian Museum of History ;Canadian Museum of Immigration,[2020]Ã2020
Extent of Item xiv, 260 pages
ISBN 9780776631363
9780776629353
0776631365
0776629352
Other Number (OCoLC)1110685966
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
Summary "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. This book 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."--
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By Topic Ports of entry--History--20th century--Nova Scotia--Halifax
Immigrants--History--20th century--Canada
By Location Canada--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century
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