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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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    Newfoundlanders". Heritage.nf.ca. "War Brides | Pier 21". Pier21.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-02. "Pier 21 Museum". Pier 21. Retrieved 2008-05-13. W. Trotter, Joe (2009)...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    immigrants to the historical Canadian immigration terminal Pier 21 on March 30, 1971, the day before the Pier closed its doors. In 1973, the Cristoforo Colombo...
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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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    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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    ships to call at the Canadian Pier 21 immigration terminal in Halifax, Nova Scotia and made 101 trips with immigrants to Pier 21. From 1942 to 1946, the United...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    bride ship taking Canadian war brides and their children from Liverpool to Pier 21 in Halifax in the early part of 1946. One of her last missions as a troop...
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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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    The Gaza floating pier was 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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    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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    Clevedon Pier is a seaside pier in the town of Clevedon, Somerset, England on the east shore of the Severn Estuary. It was described by Sir John Betjeman...
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    pleasure pier in the world. The bill to build the new pier, to replace a previous timber jetty, received royal assent as the Southend Pier Act 1829 (10...
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