In the turmoil before Saigon’s fall, the visa office at our Commission in Hong Kong couldn’t reach sponsored Vietnamese refugees to process their applications. So, over 3500 letters like this one were sent to known addresses in the country up until April, 1979. The family actually named in this example were finally able to present themselves to the Canadian visa office in Saigon for processing in July, 1989.
The Political Persons and Oppressed Persons Designated Class: development of the policy and legal framework for this class and its implementation, focused on events in Latin America.
Articles from the CIHS’s copy of the 16 April 1910 issue of Canada Weekly.
These items offer our readers an opportunity to reflect on what aspects of Canada’s immigration story were of public interest at the time.
Other articles:
A full update on the Hearts of Freedom project
Details about 2024’s 25th anniversary of the Canadian Museum of Immigration History at Pier 21
A report on the 50th anniversary dinner held by some of the immigration foreign service group members who were part of the 1974 intake
A 1910 report about a Doukhobor group that settled very well in Verigin, Saskatchewan
