Canada Employment and Immigration Commission (CEIC) approached MISA in 1989 to see if we would be interested in running a Job Re-entry Program for Immigrant Women. MaryAnne McKinnon was asked to write the proposal and when MISA got funding she was hired to manage the program. There were four intakes … Read more
From the start, ISANS has been led by people who are dedicated, skilled, hard-working, compassionate and professional. In the beginning, their challenges were to manage with very limited resources, few partners and not much experience in the immigrant settlement field. These pioneers set the tone by focusing on clients, working … Read more
In 1988, Jennifer Acker and Kathy Burnett opened English Unlimited as a private English as a Second Language school in the Green Lantern Building on Barrington St. in Halifax with five students. In the following year, in response to a growing need for language training for immigrant women, English Unlimited … Read more
In the early days, Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association (MISA, one of the predecessors of ISANS) moved a few times, but many people still remember the office at 1541 Barrington Street, where services were delivered for many years. In the early 80s, services focused on helping refugees to adapt to their … Read more
As part of our 35th Anniversary celebrations, ISANS will do a web post about our history once a week for the next 35 weeks. Follow along and learn about the development of services to immigrants in Nova Scotia, from 1980 up to today. Following the Vietnam war, from 1975-95, 2 … Read more
As part of our 35th anniversary celebrations, ISANS will do a web post about our history once a week for the next 35 weeks. Follow along and learn about the development of services to immigrants in Nova Scotia, from 1980 up to today. Introduction ISANS was created by the merger … Read more