PM announces Halifax's Pier 21 as newest national museum

[Posteritatis]

Quoth the Ceeb:

Halifax's Pier 21 will become Canada's newest national museum, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday.

The national museum, only the second outside Ottawa, will be dedicated to the recognition and celebration of the contributions of immigrants and new Canadians to this country's cultural history and heritage.

“Pier 21 symbolizes who we are — a nation of newcomers bonded together by a common quest for freedom, opportunity and democracy,” Harper said at the announcement, made after a tour of Pier 21.

The federal government will pump about $15 million for development and operations into Pier 21, which opened as a museum in 1999.

Pier 21, now a National Historic Site, will become the National Immigration Museum.

I worked there while an undergraduate for a bit; they did a hell of a lot with very thin-stretched resources, and something like this is a godsend for them.

First good thing Harper's done to this part of the country in, well, ever.