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When: Thursday, 23 October 2025 – Drinks at 5:30 pm, Dinner at 6:30 pm, meeting at 7:30 pm Where: Royal Canadian Legion, 330 Kent Street, Ottawa Tickets: $55.00 per person (includes dinner – cash bar) Payment to be made by 9 October 2025: You may also attend via Zoom, which will open at 7:00 p.m.

CIHS President Michael Molloy delivered his wide-ranging annual report at the October 17 annual general meeting. It encapsulates another very active year in fulfilling our objectives. See below for Roy Christensen’s photos from the evening.

Since 1986, the Society has successfully promoted the study of and reporting on the history of Canada’s immigration and refugee programs. A special report on those thirty years of achievements was just tabled at the October 20 annual general meeting.

This report was approved at the Annual General Meeting of October 26. The next edition of our Bulletin will carry reports on the meeting. CIHS Treasurer’s Report  2017 October 26, 2017 The activity surrounding the publication of our book ‘Running on Empty’ significantly affected our finances in 2016/17 and in some respects has transformed the Society placing…

At the October 20 AGM, Treasurer Raph Girard tabled the Society’s financial report:

At the October 20, 2016 Annual General Meeting, Secretary Gail Devlin tabled the membership report for the year, as follows: 2016 Membership Life Annual Corporate Honourary 133 (-2) 79 (-2) 41 (+1) 7 8 (+1)

The Society’s annual financial report as tabled for approval at its October 22 AGM.

The Society’s October AGM featured a presentation by Marie Chapman, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Ms Chapman spoke about the forthcoming reopening of the Museum and about the partnership between the Museum and the Society. As well, Patti Harper, Head of Archives and Research Collections at Carleton University spoke…