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Pier 21

A History

Steven Schwinghamer

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 03/2020
Pages: 200
Subject: History, Social Science
Print ISBN: 9780776631363
eBook ISBN: 9780776631387

DESCRIPTION

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This book presents a history of this important Canadian ocean immigration facility during its years of operation and later emergence as a site of public commemoration.