This special edition of the Bulletin marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the start of the evacuation to Canada of some 7000 Kosovars fleeing ethnic violence in their homeland. The first flight of evacuees arrived in Canada on May 4, 1999.
British Home Children Memorial at Pier 21, Halifax A Silent History: The British Home Children – Lynda Joyce I keep asking myself the same question: How is it that I worked for 30 years in immigration in Canada and overseas, with my first posting in London, England, and yet I never heard about the movement…
Between September 6 and November 8, 1972, Canada resettled over 6000 Ugandan Asians expelledfrom their country. To mark this fiftieth anniversary, CIHS presents:
Entre le 6 septembre et le 8 novembre 1972, le Canada contribua au rétablissement de plus de 6000 ougandais d’origine asiatique expulsés de leur pays. Afin de commémorer le cinquantième anniversaire de cette initiative, la SHIC présente Les documents reliés à cet événement sont rédigés uniquement en anglais.
The ‘Operation Parasol’ anniversary conference that CIHS supported is now online. We have also marked the 25th anniversary of the evacuation to Canada of 7000 Kosovar Albanians with a special Bulletin and a posting of ‘Memories of Kosovo’ (63.7 MB)/ Souvenirs de Kosovo (57MB) , posted courtesy of and with the collaboration of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada.
In 1999, the Government of Canada announced it would take 5000 Kosovars, displaced by ethnic strife, into the country where they could stay temporarily or settle permanently. This documentary traces the Kosovars movement to Canada and presents the partnerships between employees of Citizenship and Immigration Canada with other federal departments, the Canadian Red Cross and other groups…
Marking the 50th anniversary of the 1972 arrival in Canada of Ugandan Asian refugees, Jody Bucholtz, head of the Renfrew-Lanark County Local Immigration Partnership, organized a podcast with Ms Noreen Nasim and Ms Bharti Dhir, whose families had been resettled in Britain, and Mike Molloy, who played a key role in the processing of the…