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    Welcome Home to Canada

    May 01, 2019 3 minutes
    by Rebecca Szulhan

    The SS Nieuw Amsterdam docked at Pier 21, a brand-new immigration facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on March 8, 1928. Fifty-one passengers disembarked, the first of nearly a million immigrants who would pass through Pier 21’s doors over the next four decades.

    Before Pier 21 was built, immigrants who landed at Halifax were received at Pier 2. Compared to its predecessor, Pier 21 was modern and spacious. Its facilities included immigration offices, cutting-edge hospital and quarantine areas, detention quarters, and jail cells. Freight was unloaded on

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