# Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Halifax, Canada

The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 occupies the waterfront shed where roughly 1.5 million immigrants arrived between 1928 and 1971. Often called Canada's Ellis Island, it opened as a museum in 1999 and became a national museum in 2011.

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Coordinates: 44.63778, -63.56583

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