Journey to Freedom Day
The Library Services section of the Research and Data Branch, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada recently issued this bilingual inventory of material to mark ‘Journey to Freedom Day’.
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Southeast Asian Refugees (1975-1981)
Photo album page has been updated! We have updated the page containing photo albums from the southeast Asian refugee resettlement program of the late 1970s and early 1980s to make them easier to view. Anyone who has photos that they feel will be of interest to CIHS members, from any period of Canada’s immigration history, is encouraged…
The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugees Across Canada Over Three Decades
With the permission of the author, Feng Hou of Statistics Canada, we are pleased to post ‘The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugees Across Canada Over Three Decades‘.This is one of four comparative resettlement studies done for the United Nations-WIDER. Germany, the UK and the USA were also studied.
Indochinese Refugee Newsletter
In July 1979, just before announcing Canada would accept 50,000 refugees, Immigration Minister Ron Atkey launched a newsletter to keep Canadian refugee sponsors informed of the latest developments. The newsletters have been skillfully summarized by Martha Nixon, a member of the Indochinese Refugee Task Force. The newsletters were preserved by Rene Pappone who headed the Task Force’s…
Running on Empty – Book Publication
The Society proudly announces the publication of its book, ‘Running on Empty’, on the Indochinese ‘boat people’ movement under the banner of McGill Queen’s University Press. The book focuses on the work of Canadian public servants in Southeast Asia and Canada to meet an unprecedented commitment to resettle 70,000 of the refugees before the end of 1980….
French text in “Running on Empty”
Running on Empty’, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, includes texts written in French by officers of the Quebec immigration department and then translated. We are pleased to present these two original versions written by Florent Fortin and by Lucile Horner, both Quebec immigration department officers assigned to the Indochinese refuge camps.
1999 Evacuation of Kosovars to Canada
In 1999, the Government of Canada announced it would take 5000 Kosovars, displaced by ethnic strife, into the country where they could stay temporarily or settle permanently. This documentary traces the Kosovars movement to Canada and presents the partnerships between employees of Citizenship and Immigration Canada with other federal departments, the Canadian Red Cross and other groups…