Montreal based children’s author, Anne Renaud, has recently completed a new book about immigrants, including Hungarians in 56/57, who landed at Pier 21 in Halifax. The book, Pier 21: Stories from Near and Far, is being published by Lobster Press in Montreal in April. Anne describes the book in this way:
From 1928 to 1971, a cavernous shed-like building stood at the ready in Halifax harbour to welcome more than one million newcomers to Canada, and to send close to 500,000 Canadian service personnel of to battle during World War II. Pier 21: Stories from Near and Far is a chronicle of the immigration shed and of some of the people whose voices resonated within its walls. Among these are Hungarian refugees, also known as the 56ers, who, following the defeat of their country’s revolution in November of 1956, chose to rebuild their lives in Canada. A section of the book recounts this page of our history. See Page21
To find out more about Anne, read her bio here http://www.canscaip.org/bios/renauda.html.
Here is a the publisher’s fact sheet about the book: Pier21