Pier 21 Halifax

1055 Marginal Rd, Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada - Phone: 902 425 7770

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  • 1

    Haligonians for a day ...

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    ... we spent a full 3 1/2 hours here - finally pulled away by our empty stomachs! After lunch on the hill, we were off to Pier 21 - the Immigration museum.  This is the very immigration port that my grandpa, Gottlieb Tonn landed on, and it was with a ...

  • 2

    Three Days in Halifax

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    ... . Included a visit to the Acadia, a Canadian research vessel docked next to the museum and interesting in its own way). Pier 21 - Museum of Canadian Immigration - a smaller museum that illustrates more recent, human side of the history of immigrants to ...

  • 3

    New Scotland

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    ... . Anyway made it to Halifax this AM. The harbour walk is beautiful ( only non-frozen harbour and naturally deep, 18 m) Pier 21 was where 1 million people became immigrants in 1921, and I lucked out with good weather. There is about 5 microbreweries ...

  • 4

    Eat Grit

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    ... clams later I was full to the brim; I just hoped stories of dodgy seafood hadn’t extended to Halifax.  The Farmers’ Market was nearby Pier 21, a historical site similar to Ellis Island in New York, where immigrants to Canada had to ...

  • 5

    Hello Halifax!

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    ... the waterfront and bumped into coach loads of tourists (something that would become a recurring theme of my travels!) at Pier 21, Canada's Ellis Island. Deciding to forgo this museum in favour of my growling stomach, I headed back uphill to the hostel ...

  • 6

    Enjoying Nova Scotia

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    ... (unfortunately not too many stalls open although a cruise ship was in dock) and then a tour of the surrounding streets, passing Pier 21 which houses the Canadian Museum of Immigration. Climbing to a high point in the centre of Halifax, we had a fine ...

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    Go Black Belt Graders

    Yay, I saw Thomas the tug boat today on the Halifax Wharf,Pier 21 where immigrants were stamped as landed in Canada and some of the same buskers that I saw in Ottawa. My mom took us to Peggy's cove. The big rocks are quite the adventure and the light ...

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    One magical (super long) day on the east coast...

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    ... , holy. Anyway, Shylo gave us some cereal and then we went downtown to see Pier 21 and look at the harbour. It's kinda cool to think that crowds ...

  • 9

    Halifax

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    ... the market.  We were about ready for a grocery day, so we bought a lot of what we needed there. Then we wondered Pier 21 for a while (site of landings for about 1 million immigrants to Canada), and had a tasting at the Garrison brewery. Then ...

  • 10

    In Halifax

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    ... Piper is from China where he learned to play the bagpipes over the internet. FRED then took us to Pier 21 which bills itself as Canada’s Immigration Museum. The facility, restored to much of its original design, sits between a deep water wharf ...