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Presentation Pier 21 Canada gateway to millions of immigrants
Presentation Pier Front Door to Canada 21 million immigrants
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The immigrant experience combines these two elements. On the continuum of intercultural experiences tourist passengers to long-term visitors / Expatriates to become a permanent resident in another country, the immigrant experience means the most extreme and intense exchanges cultural, and often confrontational. As an immigrant myself, I experienced first hand the effects of culture shock and it took me about 4 years emotionally to really settle into my new home country of Canada.
Along these lines, here is an interview with Maria McGowan, Communications Manager Pier 21 Immigration Museum of Canada, a national historic site in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1. Pier 21 is the Immigration Museum Canada. Please tell us more about Pier 21, its location and facilities and what it is today.
In the twenty years seventy, Pier 21 was Canada's "gateway" to more than one million immigrants, wartime evacuees wives, refugees, troops of war, and their children. This enriched our social and cultural landscape and uplifted the soul of a nation forever.
Pier 21, a National Historic Site, has been transformed into a testament to the experience of Canada's immigration deep emotion. The impact of interactive displays, virtual projections and abundance of fascinating images is simply overwhelming.
Part of Canada's history and what continues to shape our future began at Pier 21. You will find pictures and names of passengers and ships. In addition, you can see real passports, immigration papers and even the menus of ships of that era.
This facility is much year-round more than a tourist attraction. This is a unique and authentic insight into our history that you and your family will never forget.
2. Please tell us more about the exhibit, the centerpiece of Pier 21.
The Rudolph Peter Bratty Exhibition Hall is the centerpiece of Pier 21. Designed to represent the different stages of immigration, the exhibition invites the visitor to follow the same way that immigrants followed as they journeyed in a new country. This highly interactive exhibit recreates the experience of immigration to the use display devices innovative, evocative soundscapes and interactive technology.
– Leaving Home The decision to leave the house was often filled with great uncertainty. Through photographs, interpretive signs and personal belongings, visitors see how immigration has been influenced by world events.
– The Journey Until the 1960s, almost all immigrants who arrived by boat. Find out it's like to travel across the Atlantic to a new world. Wall Secunda vessels showcases photographs of 100 ships to use Pier 21.
– Immigration Hall's arrival at Pier 21, the passengers disembark and proceed to the examination room. This area has been recreated with wooden benches, metal cages and an immigration officer may ask to see your papers.
– Trunks Customs have been inspected in the baggage hall. A model of the original set immigration Pier 21 shows the location of the baggage room, detention area, dormitories and the station.
– Volunteers played a special annex newcomers role of host. The Red Cross volunteers had a crib for families. Representatives of different faiths were on hand to greet the newcomers. This area pays tribute to those who helped immigrants in many ways.
– Face of Immigration listening stations tell the stories of children at home, British evacuee children, the military, volunteers, staff, refugees and immigrants from three different periods of history from Pier 21.
– The Second World War bridge between 1939 and 1947, the Department of National Defence took over Pier 21. 494,000 Canadian soldiers left Pier 21 to serve overseas. This is where the troops boarded ships for bravely WWII.
– Travel across Canada for most people through Pier 21, the next step was to travel by Train. Less than 5% of arrivals at Pier 21 remained in Nova Scotia. Visitors step aboard a car CN recreated and watch the Canadian landscape flash by the windows of the train. Inside the car, interviews with actual former Pier 21 share their memories are displayed.
– Andrea and Charles Bronfman – In-Transit Theatre Oceans of Hope "A presentation of 24 minutes virtual projection illustrates the emotional stories of those who passed through Pier 21.
3. Please tell us about the Library and Resource Centre.
Our Resource Centre houses a wealth of valuable information for those who arrived at Pier 21, their descendants, researchers, historians, school groups and other interested parties. The Resource Centre has unique images from sources such as the National Archives, Sisters of Service, Canadian National Railway, Halifax Port Corporation and the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, many of which are outlined in the exhibition hall. Collection also includes photographs of newspapers, the "Day in the life of Pier 21" series donated by Ken Elliot, Allan S. Tanner Collection of images representing Canadian troops return to Pier 21 in 1945, and Francis E. Collection Murphy, who documented the construction of batteries. It has a small collection, but more and more books on topics such as Canadian immigration, Canadian military in World War II, multiculturalism and other fields of study related to Pier 21.
Four computer terminals are available where our website, database of stories, a database of ships and other electronic resources can be accessed. Visitors can search for information electronically to the arrival base of all those who have immigrated through a Canadian port between 1925 and 1935. Immigration records of individuals who entered Canada through Quebec City, Montreal, Halifax and Saint John between 1925 and 1935 can be viewed on microfilm.
The microfilms are very popular because they contain the answers to the twenty-eight questions a prospective immigrant had to meet before being allowed to enter Canada.
The Resource Centre houses photographs of 90% vessels that immigrants in Halifax between 1928 and 1971, and we are constantly adding to our collection. The Resource Centre has filmed all interviews immigration carried out by CBC for the year before the opening news coverage of the Pier 21 project, several documentaries and films on subjects related Canadian immigration. One of Pier 21's most important projects was the collection of personal recollections of immigrants, war brides, men and women, British guest children and children at home. Many visitors take advantage of this gathering in the center and choose to write their own stories after seeing him arrive. Pier 21 experience is greatly enhanced by a visit to the Resource Centre. Visit here href = "http://immigrationsupport-org.blogspot.com> http://immigrationsupport-org.blogspot.com"
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