Can you find Pier 21 in this fascinating Secodn World War Image? (Hint: Look for a troop ship and tug boat.)

We're installing an exhibit about the 1999 Kosovar refugee airlift, a remarkably successful operation where Canada provided safety to 7,000 people. The show, complete with one of the Zeddy Bears that the Canadian Red Cross gave to children, opens tomorrow: pier21.ca/operation-para…

Last chance this weekend to see "Towards a Foreign Land", a special exhibit at Pier 21 that tells the story of immigrants from Yugoslavia in the 1920s. Among many surprises is a map from an old guidebook that shows the Yukon as being in the middle of Quebec and erases PEI!

Holland America's cruise ship MS Volendam is this summer's most regular caller to Halifax at Pier 21. I like her array of traditional rat guards (discs designed to block rats from climbing up mooring lines.) A fun touch: each rat guard has a different design of a cat's face!

On the very spot where military personnel boarded ships bound for Europe stands our Wall of Service. Learn about how it provides a way for families to commemorate service men and women along with the War Brides who came to Canada during and after the war : bit.ly/451Cvft

Canadian photographers & cameramen like Ken Bell, Bill Grant and Gilbert Milne did outstanding work on D-Day Less well-known are some vivid colour shots like this one of followup wave landing on the still-smoking beach. Original at Library & Archives Canada.

The exhibition "Refuge Canada" opens today at the Chilliwack Museum and Archives in BC. It looks at the experiences of refugees and Canada's track record in responding to refugee crises. Packed with powerful features like this replica migrant boat, it runs until Sept. 20.

Queen Mary 2 is for Canada Day at Pier 21. Come down and see her and see us! We are free today with all kinds of fun activities - inside and out of the rain!

We had a Canada Day Citizenship Ceremony at Pier 21 this morning. If you ever get a chance to take in one of these, go! They are very moving and fill you with hope for Canada's future.

A fine view of the bow of the ship Queen Mary 2, taken from "the Doctor's Window" in the Pier 21 gallery at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. RMS Queen Mary 2 is scheduled to leave at 5 pm today.

There's still time to take us home with you! Pick up your Mini-Museum play bricks kit by the awesome HFX BRX at our gift shop.

Fort Point Museum donation keg stolen.

Today is Emancipation Day in Canada - a day to commemorate the abolishment of slavery.  Here are 4 common myths you may hear or come across online that deny Canada's role in the Transatlantic slave trade or minimize its impacts. 🧵

We have an intern program for new immigrants called “Welcome Home to Canada”. We have an annual employee showcase, a kind of a job fair to introduce participants to potential employers. This year it is on Oct 29. Details about meeting these talented new Canadians are attached.

Today is the United Nation's The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. The new Pier 21 exhibition "A History Exposed: The Enslavement of Black People in Canada" is a great introduction to this, often-overlooked topic: pier21.ca/a-history-expo…

RMS Queen Mary 2 is in Halifax today. The historic "Doctor's Window" at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, where I work, has a great close-up view of this legendary Cunard liner. Love the rat guards on the mooring lines with paint schemes that matche QM2's hull!

The municipal councillor candidates for District 9, Armdale Halifax West, are meeting the public today 4:30 to 6:30pm at 6418 Quinpool Rd (Oxford Tap Room upstairs). Good primer for the Oct. 19 municipal elections. (Info on voting here: halifax.ca/cit.../electio… )

A veteran Halifax seafarer recently passed away at 101. Patricia Martinson went to sea in WWII & served as a merchant officer until 1980. She had great stories! There is an obit in the Oct. 26 Chronicle Herald that is worth reading: saltwire.com/halifax/obitua…

I am giving an illustrated talk Thur night at 7pm in Kentville about the town's train that rushed to the rescue after the Halifax Explosion. Get there early if interested as these KHS talks are usually a full house. Details: kentvillehistoricalsociety.ca/events/

Information Morning - NS with Portia Clark - Dec. 17, 2024: Harbour dredging leads to presumed discovery of remnants of Halifax explosion cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…