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Chargement... Pier 21: The Gateway That Changed Canadapar Trudy Duiven
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 "Pier 21: The Gateway that Changed Canada is a book that chronicles the early days of Pier 21 and takes us right up to the most recent incarnation of this waterfront warehouse. Instead of a vacant building, it's now a vibrant museum that commemorates an important time and place in Canadian history. It is fitting that the revitalization of Pier 21 was spearheaded by volunteers, as the original Pier 21 was largely volunteer-run. "It was really run by volunteers," co-author Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic revealed to Information Morning host Don Connolly. "There was an amazing core of volunteers from almost every walk of life that you can imagine." This second crop of volunteers has transformed Pier 21. Like the new lives of the many people who passed through Pier 21's doors, the current national museum began with a big dream. "That part of the story is absolutely amazing," Mitic admitted."
From 1928 to 1971, Pier 21 in Halifax served as the front door to Canada, the entryway through which more than 1.5 million people passed. A legion of volunteers, medical staff, and immigration personnel kept vigil at the pier from one decade to the next, greeting and directing the human tide that flowed and ebbed through its doors. The work helped shape who they were, and gave rise to stories that they and those who passed through collected in tattered notebooks or in corners of their minds. Beginning with the first wave of European settlers and the early problems with the first wave of European settlers and the early problems of quarantine, Pier 21: The Gateway that Changed Canada is a moving account of the human drama that unfolded at this historic site. This new edition updates the Pier 21 story to the present day, including its confirmation as Canada's national museum of immigration in 2011. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A touching tribute to the hundreds of volunteers and employees who helped welcome the waves of immigrants coming into Canada, some coming with means and opportunity waiting for them and some coming with only the clothes on their backs. From the first waves of European settlers through to the war years when refugees, war brides and displaced children arrived, hundreds of volunteers and employees were on hand to help with everything from translation to supplying food to helping watch children for exhausted parents.
Pier 21 is now Canada's National Museum of Immigration and I plan on making a trip there this summer.
Recommended to anyone who is interested in Canadian History. (