Ahoy, Halifax!

“I stood on the deck and I saw the lights and I tell you, it was heaven,” a Polish immigrant recounted of her arrival in Halifax in 1950. “And I made a vow that this would be my country.”
Her words are inscribed with those of countless others in the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, at the Halifax Seaport. Canada’s Ellis Island, Pier 21 was the gateway for over a million arriving immigrants between 1928 and 1971, and like Ellis Island is now a museum recoun