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The CIHS Bulletin

Published three to four times a year, the CIHS Bulletin is our main publication
containing articles and commentary of interest to our members.

The latest edition of the Bulletin is number 113,
published in October 2025

In this edition:

  • The launch of Hearts of Freedom, authored by CIHS members and others, as well as a review.
  • The final instalment of an immigration officer’s experiences working at a Canada Immigration Centre in the 1980s.
  • Information on the 2025 Gunn Prize award.
  • A few paragraphs about Canada’s “immigration halls” — federally funded immigration settlement buildings established across the country at the turn of the 20th century.
  • A photo of a group of immigration officers in Lisbon in the early 1970s.
  • Photos of events held in mid-June 2025 by CIHS members and others.
  • A note of remembrance for the recent deaths of Stephan Hesse, the Honourable John McCallum, P.C., M.P., Ian Rankin, Michel Vermette, and Kelda Whalen.
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The Canadian Immigration Historical Society (CIHS) was formed in 1986, when seventeen people met and agreed upon the need for a non-partisan organization gathering historians, political scientists, sociologists, academics, government officials and private individuals to develop and promote interest in Canadian immigration and refugee matters and history.

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