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Black and white photograph of students in a classroom, circa 1930s-1940s.

‘Boat people’ stories

Canadians who came here under the ‘boat people’ movement are now telling their stories. ...
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Black and white photograph of students in a classroom, circa 1930s-1940s.

Roger St. Vincent’s autobiography

The Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa, has made Roger St. Vincent’s autobio...
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Black and white photograph of students in a classroom, circa 1930s-1940s.

Treasurer’s Report 2018

The Society’s financial report was approved at the AGM of October 18, 2018. [pdf]http://cihs-s...
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Black and white photograph of students in a classroom, circa 1930s-1940s.

Hector Cowan

Canadian diplomats carry out many different duties when serving abroad. CIHS member, Hector Cowan, w...
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2019 Gunn Award

The 2019 Gunn Award competition for the best university student essay on Canadian immigration or ref...
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Black and white photograph of students in a classroom, circa 1930s-1940s.

Review of Running on Empty

The latest edition of  ‘Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees’, from York Universi...
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Black and white photograph of students in a classroom, circa 1930s-1940s.

CBC TV News Archive

An item from the CBC TV News Archive – a report of a 1979 visit to the Anambas Islands of Indo...
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Black and white photograph of students in a classroom, circa 1930s-1940s.

The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugees Across Canada Over Three Decades

With the permission of the author, Feng Hou of Statistics Canada, we are pleased to post ‘The ...
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Black and white photograph of students in a classroom, circa 1930s-1940s.

Robin Higham’s review of ‘Running on Empty’

‘Robin Higham’s review of ‘Running on Empty’ is posted here with the kind pe...
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