CBC News report
CBC News reported on ‘Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980’
See also
“Hearts of Freedom” Book Tour
In this video, CIHS member and former president Mike Molloy provides a short summary of the inspiration behind the Hearts of Freedom project and the subsequent book, Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees.
The dramatic rescue of 155 Tamil asylum claimants off of Newfoundland — August 1986
The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 has recently posted an article recalling the events of the summer of 1986 when 155 Tamils from Sri Lanka were rescued off of the coast of Newfoundland. The bloody civil war in that country had erupted a few years earlier and many of its citizens had fled…
An interview with Joe Bissett
In 1956, James “Joe” Bissett was one of the first recipients of a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Carleton University. CIHS member Doug Dunnington recently located this video of Carleton University’s 2024 interview with Joe, who is a CIHS member emeritus. Carleton has established the Bissett Alumni Award for Distinctive Contributions to the…
