Pier 21 receives national museum designation
Posted Jun 15, 2010 06:24:03 AM.
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Halifax’s Pier 21 is now officially Canada’s national immigration museum.
The House of Commons has voted unanimously to give that designation to a building that has seen one million immigrants enter Canada through its doors in the last century.
They were processed from 1928 to 1971 and half-a-million armed forces members also sailed from there to Europe during World War II.
The designation means there will be annual federal funding for the waterfront museum.
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