The single Canadian page is an immigration terminal rather than a camp. Pier 21 at Halifax handled ocean arrivals from 1928 to 1971, with examination rooms, dormitories for those held overnight or longer, medical facilities and a railway connection under one roof, so that a voyage ended and a train journey west began in the same building.12
Ukrainians came through it under the bulk labour movement agreed by the Canadian Cabinet on 6 June 1947, which contracted each person to a named employer for ten to twelve months, and under the close relatives scheme that ran alongside it. They were the second largest group admitted, 19,215 people in the three fiscal years to March 1950, and almost all of them landed here.34
What the page holds is individual journeys rather than a resident population. Family testimonies preserved by the museum give a ship, a date of landing and an onward destination: from the Lexenfeld camp in Salzburg to Taber in Alberta aboard the Marine Falcon in June 1948, or to Regina aboard the Samaria in March 1949.56
Canada received 77,703 of the 690,145 people resettled in that period.
Halifax’s ocean terminal linked Ukrainian refugees’ transatlantic voyages with trains, sponsors and new homes across Canada, and for a few it became a place of weeks or months of waiting.