Journey to Freedom Day
The Library Services section of the Research and Data Branch, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada recently issued this bilingual inventory of material to mark ‘Journey to Freedom Day’.
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The Southeast Asian Refugee Movement to Canada: Chronology 1954-1980
We have posted a revised and more complete chronology of developments leading up to and following the start of the movement of Southeast Asian refugees to Canada.
The dramatic rescue of 155 Tamil asylum claimants off of Newfoundland — August 1986
The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 has recently posted an article recalling the events of the summer of 1986 when 155 Tamils from Sri Lanka were rescued off of the coast of Newfoundland. The bloody civil war in that country had erupted a few years earlier and many of its citizens had fled…
