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    Pier 21 is a former ocean liner terminal and immigration shed from 1928 to 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly one million immigrants came to...
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    The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (French: Musée canadien de l'immigration du Quai 21), in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is Canada's national museum...
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    A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of water and usually juts out from its shore, typically supported by piles or pillars, and provides...
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    Canadian philanthropist who co-founded the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was born and raised in New Waterford, Nova...
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    2016-07-13. Retrieved 2016-07-03. "War Brides | Pier 21". Pier21.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-02. "Pier 21 Museum". Pier 21. Retrieved 2008-05-13. Silvia Cassamagnaghi...
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    Southend Pier is a major landmark in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom. Extending 2.16 kilometres (1.34 mi) into the Thames Estuary, it is the longest...
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  • with its premiere set for January 19, 2024. The series is produced by Pier 21 Films, with Russell Peters attached as an executive producer. It was shot...
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    Pointe-au-Père in Rimouski, Quebec, and at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Canadian government has passed legislation...
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    The West Pier is a ruined pier in Brighton, England. It was designed by Eugenius Birch and opened in 1866. It was the first pier to be Grade I listed...
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  • Wonders of Canada, the Canoe, the Igloo, Niagara Falls, Old Quebec City, Pier 21 Halifax, Prairie Skies, and the Rockies. CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge commented...
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    Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot-long (1,010 m) pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community...
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    The Gaza floating pier is a floating dock facility created by the U.S. military after being proposed immediately before U.S. President Biden's 2024 State...
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  • 1917. Pier 21 opened in 1928 closer to the mouth of the Halifax Harbour which led to the closing of Pier 2 as an immigration shed. Today Pier 2's location...
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  • The series was created by Phung and Scott Townend, and is produced by Pier 21 Films. The series was shot in Hamilton, Ontario. It is set in the suburbs...
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    nickname Grutte Pier ('Big Pier'; in the pre-1980 West Frisian spelling written as Greate Pier), or by the Dutch translation Grote Pier, which referred...
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  • Queensland Urangan Pier, Hervey Bay, Queensland Belgium Pier, Blankenberge Nieuwpoort Pier Ostend Pier Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia White Rock Pier, White Rock...
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    It was first exhibited in 2011 at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Canada's national immigration museum in Halifax. After a display period...
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    Little Island at Pier 55 (stylized as Little Island @Pier55) is an artificial island and a public park within Hudson River Park, just off the western coast...
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    Retrieved November 30, 2017. "Tobias Lütke". Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023. Retrieved March 13, 2024...
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  • 36-36. "Gentlemen's Agreement, 1908 | Pier 21". Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2020-05-21. Kotera, Akira (1991). "Western Export...
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    Chelsea Piers is a series of piers in Chelsea, on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located to the west of the West Side Highway (Eleventh Avenue)...
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    The Santa Monica Pier is a large pier at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California, United States. It contains a small amusement park, concession...
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    Majestic were employed in summer recreational cruises from New York to Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the end of 1932, with passenger traffic in...
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    year, many of the men working in the construction industry upon settling. Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia was an influential port of Italian immigration...
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    2023. Ramachandran, Naman (21 April 2023). "Canadian Comedian Jasmeet Singh Raina Sets 'Late Bloomer' Series With Crave, Pier 21 Films (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety...
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    enter the harbour as the anti-submarine net between Georges Island and Pier 21 opened for the morning. Mont-Blanc headed towards Bedford Basin on the...
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    Pier Giorgio Frassati (6 April 1901 – 4 July 1925) was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated...
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    became a dedicated cruise ship running six day cruises from New York to Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. On 19 November 1930, Mauretania rescued 28 people...
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    Montreal in summer and to Halifax in winter. After the construction of the Pier 21 immigration complex in Halifax in 1928, Athenia became a more frequent...
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    newly created Canadian immigration terminal Pier 21 when it opened in 1928. Baltic made 18 voyages to Pier 21. In the early 1930s, however, the White Star...
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