Bulletin 113 October 2025

Main Topics Covered

• News about the new book Hearts of Freedom, authored by CIHS members and others, as well as a review.
• The final instalment of an immigration officer’s experiences working at a Canada Immigration Centre in the 1980s.
• Information on the 2025 Gunn Prize award.
• A few paragraphs about Canada’s “immigration halls” — federally funded immigration settlement buildings established across the country at the turn of the 20th century.
• A photo of a group of immigration officers in Lisbon in the early 1970s.
• Photos of events held in mid-June 2025 by CIHS members and others.
• A note of remembrance for the recent deaths of Stephan Hesse, the Honourable John McCallum, P.C., M.P., Ian Rankin, Michel Vermette, and Kelda Whalen.