CH-0143 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Pier 21 serves as an immigration gateway
Pier 21 in Halifax operated as a major reception facility for immigrants between 1928 and 1971, connecting overseas arrivals with onward journeys in Canada.
Not publication-ready. This is the facility’s operating period, not a single migration wave. Entries through other ports and airports remain separate.
- Historical place
- Atlantic
- Present-day context
- Unknown — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Immigrants, Refugees, Families
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
Source evidence
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Pier 21 National Historic Site
Parks Canada · · Review: primary institutional reference
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-12. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Opened institutional page or retrieved official search extract. Event and movement remain editorial drafts.