Pier 21

A History

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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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. 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-26
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt609 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMercury
Antal sidor277
FörlagUniversity of Ottawa Press
ISBN9780776631363
UtmärkelserLong-listed for Canada's History's 2020 Book & Gift Guide 2020

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Land AcknowledgmentList of Illustrations IntroductionCHAPTER 1 - Immigrating to Canada through Pier 21, 1928–1971CHAPTER 2 - Pier 2 and the Early Years of Pier 21, 1890–1939CHAPTER 3 - Pier 21 at War, 1939–1946CHAPTER 4 - Height of Postwar Immigration at Pier 21, 1946–1955CHAPTER 5 - Final Years of Pier 21, 1955–1971Conclusion AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

"Pier 21: A History is an energetic effort by Steven Schwinghamer and Jan Raska, two resident historians of the museum, to share representative stories of countless would‑be Canadians — among them thousands of Italians like my father, uncle, and grandparents — who came through this gateway. It is also the story of evolving immigration policies, which were gradually liberalized within the narrow parameters of twentieth-century Canada. And though it was not the authors’ intention, a reflection on our nation’s immigration history and the hard-earned march toward greater cultural openness feels especially pertinent in the wake of COVID‑19, which has closed down international borders, paused global migration almost entirely, and brought a spike in anti-foreigner sentiment. (…) Schwinghamer and Raska’s clear-eyed examination of immigration policies, through the lens of a single port of entry, demonstrates the impressive and hard-won gains of our modern immigration system."