Pier 21
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Pier 21 is a former ocean liner terminal and immigration shed from 1928 to 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly one million immigrants came to Canada through Pier 21, and it is the last surviv
Pier 21 in 1934 with RMS Majestic
The Red Cross Nursery in the Pier 21 Annex, 1948
New arrivals at Pier 21 in 1952
Letitia as a hospital ship arriving at Pier 21
Italian Canadians
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Italian Canadians or Italo-Canadians are Canadian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who migrated to Canada as part of the Italian diaspora, or
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…which help shaped Canada's postwar refugee policies. The 1950s marked the peak years of immigration arrivals, about 45,000 per year, many of which were Italian-Canadians. A large two-story addition was built onto the immigration annex building in the 1950s to handle the heavy traffic of postwar European immigration. The…
Italian Canadians as a percent of population by census division
A grocery store owned by an Italian family in Little Italy, Montreal, 1910
Sign of Mirador, a restaurant in Montreal owned by an Italian immigrant, 1948