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Refugees

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Evaluation Report for the Indochinese Refugee Movement Conference

An evaluation has been carried out of last November’s conference on the Indochinese Refugee Movement to Canada. The response was very positive for this event....
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Seven Crested Cranes

Roger St. Vincent produced two versions of “Seven Crested Cranes”. The first is based on that originally published by the Canadian Immigration Historical Society twenty years ago and re-re...
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The Uganda Collection

CIHS facilitated the transfer to Carleton University of an important archive of 1972 Canadian, Ugandan and international newspaper clippings about the expulsion Uganda's Asian community....
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Indo-Chinese Refugee Movement Conference Documentary

This linked video flows from the fall, 2013 conference...
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Presentation: (1986) UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award to the people of Canada

The people of Canada are the unique recipients of an award for their work on behalf of refugees. This video includes extracts from the 1986 presentation ceremony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8TF3...
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CIHS and the Centre for Refugee Studies

CIHS and the Centre for Refugee Studies have just wrapped up a conference on the Indochinese movement....
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40th Anniversary Lecture: Ugandan Asian Refugee Movement 1972

Canadian Immigration Historical Society President Mike Molloy lectured on the 1972 Ugandan Asian refugee movement at Ontario universities in Ontario in October, 2012 (Ottawa, Carleton, Windsor, Wester...
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Uganda Refugee Movement 40th Anniversary

Forty years ago this August the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin announced the expulsion of most of Uganda’s Asian population. Canada responded by sending a team to Kampala under the leadership of Roger St...
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CIHS-Pathways to Prosperity Partnership video project

CIHS and Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) have  launched an on-line video interview series.  They which provides an oral history of immigration related by insiders involved in the political and policy d...
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