Next Five Years: Halifax

Immigrants Dept: "This museum highlights the essential role that immigrants have played in the building of our nation and continue to play in shaping our nation, shaping the Canada that we know and love today," MacKay told the crowd, according to CBC. The federal government plans to spend $25 million during the next five years to upgrade the waterfront building and develop new exhibitions and programming for the museum, which opened in 1999 and defence Minister Peter MacKay officially introduced the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 on Monday. The Canadian Museum of Immigration was officially introduced at Pier 21 in Halifax on Monday by Defence Minister Peter MacKay. "This history and this historic place represent one of the jumping-off points for these new arrivals." As reported in the news.
@t peter mackay, defence minister