Themes

• Hungarian Immigrants
  In recent Canadian population censuses, over 120,000 of Canada's residents claimed Hungarian as their ancestry ...
• Carenza Collection of Italian recordings
  In November 2000 an important collection of Italian music records was donated to the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) by Frank Carenza ...
• Immigration to Canada
  An historical overview of immigration to Canada ...
• Canadian Women of African Descent
  Discover personal facets of the immigrant experience of Canadian women born in African societies. These women left their native countries to settle in Canada. Like many other Canadians of various origins, their profile has been shaped by a great diversity of languages, ethnic groups, religions and cultures. Through personal objects, letters, postcards and family photos the women interviewed here share their life stories.
  
  As well as allowing us to understand these women’s journeys, this project is also thought-provoking because it contributes to the development of museological approaches featuring citizen participation, encounters and creativity.
  
  In memoriam, Dr. Aïda Kaouk
• The Deichmann Pottery Collection
  Among the earliest craftspeople in Canada to set up a studio and to make a living by selling their work were Erica and Kjeld Deichmann ...
• Wedding Rituals
  As social events that bring families and communities together in celebration, weddings are among the most important and universal of all life cycle rituals celebrated in human society ...
• Musical Instruments
  Musical performances have served a number of important roles within immigrant communities. Instruments that accompanied immigrants to Canada became important and functional objects for individuals, families and communities ...
• Nickerson Collection of Children's Art
  Created by children ages 3 to 19, the Nickerson Collection includes everything from portraits to landscapes, cultural celebrations to festivals, and everyday life to pure fantasy ...
• Belief Systems and Ritual
  Religious beliefs and practices provided immigrants and their families with a sense of familiarity and continuity with the past, in the midst of the many changes and adjustments they faced in a strange new land ...
• Trunks and Travel
  In the past 400 years, millions of immigrants have arrived on Canada's shores. Motivated by the desire to better their lives and those of their children, they left their homelands having packed their essential belongings in bags and baggage of all kinds and sizes ...
  
  Barnardo Children
  In the period from 1869 to 1924, British charitable agencies sent more than 80,000 children to live in rural Canada. Among the agencies involved in this work, the largest was Barnardo's Homes, under whose care nearly one-third of the children came to Canada ...
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