A monument dedicated to Ukrianinan history located in a Halifax park
Tucked away in a corner of a park in downtown Halifax sits a sculpture some have never noticed.
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Tucked away in a corner of a park in downtown Halifax sits a sculpture some have never noticed.
Canada’s last active seaport immigration shed closed 50 years ago — a look back at Pier 21 A sign welcomes arrivals at the Pier 21 dockside in 1950. Photo: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (DI2013.839.32) March 8, 2021 For close to half a centry, the immigration administration centre at Pier 21 was the first stop on Canadian soil for almost one million new international arrivals. In the decade following the Second World War, around 500,000 people entered Canada here on the Halifax shore. One-fifth of the new arrivals had been displaced by the war or were political refugees ...