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Pier 21
Pier 21 was an ocean liner terminal and immigration shed from 1928 to 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Over one million immigrants came to Canada through Pier 21 and it is the last surviving seaport immigration facility in Canada.〔("Commemorating Our History", Parks Canada Heritage, Collections Canada website )〕 The facility is often compared to the landmark American immigration gateway Ellis Island.〔Eliis Island was the major gateway for American immigration during an overlapping period of 1892 to 1954. The quarantine station at Grosse Isle, Quebec (1832-1932) also shares the Canada's Ellis Island comparison.〕 The immigration terminal facility is now occupied by the Canadian Museum of Immigration, part of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design as well as various retail and studio tenants.
==Background==
Halifax Harbour, along with Quebec City and Victoria, British Columbia were the major ports of entry for immigration to Canada in the steamship era. Pier 2 in Halifax's North End, also known as the "Deepwater Piers", was built in 1880 to process immigrants arriving on ocean liners. It also served as a major terminal for troopships and hospital ships in World War I. However by 1913, the peak year of immigration in Canada, it was clear that the growing size of ocean liners and increase in immigration would require a larger facility. Plans were made for a new integrated ocean liner and railway facility in the South End of Halifax.〔Alexa Thompson and Debi van de Wiel, ''Pier 21: An Illustrated History of Canada's gateway'' Halifax: Nimbus Publishing (2002), p. 15〕
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