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Between 1928 and 1971, Pier 21 was the gateway of Canada. As the landing port for immigrants, it greeted more than one million new Canadians. It also saw many Canadians leave, including 368,000 soldiers who sailed overseas during the Second World War.
This is the story of Pier 21 and the many people who passed through it, the war brides and their children, the returning warriors, and the refugees from war-torn Europe and beyond. It examines the importance of Canada’s “Ellis Island” and its role today as a historical center.
Linda Granfield is one of Canada’s leading non-fiction researchers and writers. She is the author of 97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life, High Flight: A Story of World War II, Amazing Grace: The Story of the Hymn, and In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae.
NOMINEE 2004 - Silver Birch Award for Non-Fiction
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