It’s been a tumultuous couple of years inside Iran, with protests over the killing of 22-year-old Masha Amini taking place in dozens of towns and cities around the world. In Toronto, which is home to the second-highest concentration of Irani

Exotic Fruit Company - Annette Clarke

Jun 26th, 2023 23m

Apple and pear trees are common sights along the South Shore of Nova Scotia, but a new nursery just outside Lunenburg is bringing a vast array of new species of fruit trees to the area.Originally from Germany, Annette Clarke moved to British

How to Share an Egg - Bonny and Saul Reichert

Jun 12th, 2023 32m 7s

For many people who are uprooted from their lives in their homeland, the foods of home are often the first things they want to share, and the last connection to home that they hang onto. That’s certainly true for Edmonton’s Reichert family.

The Spice of Life - Vikram Vij

May 29th, 2023 30m 35s

Growing up, celebrated chef and entrepreneur Vikram Vij wanted to be an actor, but his business-minded father had other ideas. At nineteen, Vij left India for Austria, where he studied hotel management, and landed his first restaurant job at th

Chop Suey Nation - Ann Hui

May 15th, 2023 41m 20s

Growing up in Vancouver as the child of immigrants from China and Hong Kong, journalist Ann Hui had a very specific idea of what so-called authentic Chinese food was. “We would go eat in Chinatown. We would have wonton noodles, we would have d

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Season 4 Trailer

May 12th, 2023 2m 38s

Season 4 trailer

Escape to Freedom - Luben Boykov & Elena Popova

Jul 19th, 2022 37m 25s

Gander, Newfoundland was made famous internationally with the hit Broadway musical Come From Away. The Tony Award-winning blockbuster centered around how the town handled the massive influx of stranded airline passengers impacted by the groundi

Do You See What I See? – Visual Artists Rey Tatad & Leya Evelyn

Jul 5th, 2022 31m 19s

Rey Tatad moved from the Philippines to Tisdale, Saskatchewan when he was 16 years old. Growing up, he loved illustration, and when it came time to decide on what to major in at University, Rey knew that art was what he wanted to pursue as his

Determined Dancers - Ida Beltran Lucila & Jojo Lucila

Jun 21st, 2022 32m 9s

The desire to give children a better life. That’s one of the big, enduring themes in stories about why people leave everything they know behind, to immigrate to another country.And it’s what inspired Ida Beltran Lucila and Jojo Lucila to leav

The Mariachi Ghost – Jorge Requena Ramos & Rafael Reyes

Jun 7th, 2022 31m 22s

The search for justice in an unjust world is a theme that never gets old. And it’s the search for justice that inspires Jorge Requena Ramos and Rafael Reyes in the music they create, along with their bandmates, in The Mariachi Ghost. “The Maria

Visionaries Past & Present – Yousuf Karsh & Dinuk Wijeratne

May 24th, 2022 32m 7s

Season 3 of Countless Journeys from the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 celebrates the contributions of Canadian immigrants to the performing and visual arts. We begin with a celebration of the life and work of legendary photographer

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Season 3 Trailer

May 17th, 2022 1m 42s

Devoting your life to making art takes guts. Many newcomers have, and Canada as a country is richer for it.Join host Paolo Pietropaolo and many incredibly talented artists in the creative and performing arts who also happen to be immigrants t

Game Changers

Aug 2nd, 2021 39m 32s

The Game Changers brings us the stories of two men, born just a few years apart, who came to Canada under very different circumstances and who both built hugely successful business empires, starting from scratch.First we hear from legendary b

Community Builders

Jul 19th, 2021 38m 33s

Creating healthy and successful communities is the focus of this episode of Countless Journeys. We meet two women who have devoted their lives to helping others help themselves.Dr. Lalita Malhotra is an obstetrician and gynecologist who has liv

Legends part 2 Sonja Bata

Jul 5th, 2021 31m 25s

Sonja Bata was a young bride from Switzerland when she settled in Ontario with her husband Thomas shortly after the end of World War 2. She joined him in the challenging task of building and expanding the Canadian branch of the world-renowned B

Legends part 1 Wally Buono

Jun 20th, 2021 25m 25s

Wally Buono is the winningest coach in CFL history who led the teams he coached to a remarkable five Grey Cup wins.And that’s on top of the two Grey cups he won as a player.Wally, along with his older brother and his mother arrived at Pier 2

Generation 1.5

Jun 6th, 2021 43m 17s

Generation 1.5 features the stories of three women who had to figure out a whole new life and a whole new identity - before they even knew who they really were.Trey Anthony burst onto the Canadian theatre scene in 2001, with her play Da Kink

Tastemakers

May 24th, 2021 35m 13s

Dinner and a movie. It’s the classic evening out. And on our first episode of season 2 of Countless Journeys we hear from two men whose life’s work has been centred on making those two experiences a little bit more pleasurable.First we hear f

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Season 2 Trailer

May 21st, 2021 2m 38s

Our second season of Countless Journeys shares the stories of how immigrants from a wide background of countries and cultures contribute to this country daily. By creating families, businesses and communities, immigrants have had a profound

Canadian Dreams

Jul 10th, 2020 33m 13s

In this episode:Bostjan Skrlj an adventurist originally from Slovenia who was motorcycling around the world, and stopped in Whitehorse.Gaetan Pierrard is a musher from Belgium who also lives in the Yukon. Yogi Omar from Indonesia, arrived i

Episode 4: Canadian Dreams

Jul 9th, 2020 33m 32s

Working Life

Jun 11th, 2020 33m 36s

In this episode:Erlinda and Armand Tesoro. Erlinda arrived in 1968 from the Philippines to work in the Garment Industry.Musician Yosvanii Castañeda defected 40 years later during a stopover in Toronto from Japan to Cuba.

Love & Family

May 25th, 2020 27m 1s

War Bride Gladys Merrigan moved to Halifax after the war to join her husband. She still lives in the house he built for her.VP Audience Engagement at the Museum, Carrie-Ann Smith speaks about the significance of the war brides who came to Can

War & Persecution

May 25th, 2020 32m 48s

Award winning playwright Hannah Moscovitch, whose visit to the Museum’s Scotiabank Family History Centre helped inspire the play Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story about her great-grandparents arrival in Canada from Romania.Dr. Nhung Tran-Davies