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2023 Gunn Prize Winning Essay

The winning essay ‘Voices of Migration: Exploring Agency within Canadian Immigration Policy and Gr...
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Speech by Mr. Raph Girard

Extracts from a speech delivered by Mr. Raph Girard At the conference of the Association of Canadian...
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Molloy Bursary

The CIHS Board proudly announces the establishment of the CIHS Molloy Bursary for undergraduate stud...
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Expulsion of Ugandan-Asians – 1972

Between September 6 and November 8, 1972, Canada resettled over 6000 Ugandan Asians expelled from th...
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New national exhibition on Southeast Asian refugee movement to Canada

An exhibit recently opened at the Canadian Museum of History about this significant movement of refu...
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CIHS has a new mail address for your correspondence with us

The address is: Canadian Immigration Historical Society, P.O. Box 4401, Station E, Ottawa, Ontario,...
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UKRAINE

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has displaced millions of Ukrainians. Many have found refuge in ne...
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Journey to Freedom Day

The Library Services section of the Research and Data Branch, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship ...
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Gunn Prize 2022

CIHS and Carleton University are pleased to announce a new partnership to award the Gunn Prize for e...
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