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The CIHS Board proudly announces the establishment of the CIHS Molloy Bursary for undergraduate students in Canadian universities. The goal of the Bursary is to provide financial support to students studying Canadian history, especially the history of immigration to this country. Each year a $1,000 Bursary will be awarded to a deserving student studying in either official language. We invite newcomers to Canada to apply.
The award is named for our past-president, Michael J. Molloy. Under his leadership the CIHS expanded significantly its research potential. Mr. Molloy’s gift for forging community partnerships combined with a passion for the history of immigration to Canada to provide the perfect environment for more of our stories to be told. The results can be seen in our CIHS Bulletin, available on this website, and in the publication, Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 (McGill-Queens University Press, 2017), as well as in our partnerships and conferences with the Hearts of Freedom Project, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, the Indochinese and Ugandan Asian communities, and the Hungarian community’s Flight to Freedom conference.
Each applicant will be required to submit a 1000-word essay explaining why the Bursary is important to them and how they satisfy the eligibility criteria. These criteria are:
The application form is now posted and the deadline is midnight November 1, each year.
Donations to the Bursary Fund can be submitted by cheque addressed to the Canadian Immigration Historical Society by mail or by bank-to-bank INTERAC e-transfer using the email info@cihs-shic.ca with CIHS as the payee. Please indicate that the funds are for the Bursary on the cheque or email.
CIHS Bulletin 105 explores various aspects of Canada’s immigration settlement story. It opens with an overview of the Canadian government’s settlement program arrangements from the post-war program into the 1970s. (We have included one ministerial press release from 1948.) This issue also looks at how one CIHS member, then a manpower officer, perceived and delivered that program in Cambridge Ontario in the late 1970s. CIHS members have contributed two book reviews. Both books explore the authors’ reflections on their settlement pathways in Canada: one from Sri Lanka; the other from northern India. This issue also includes an overview and update about the Hearts of Freedom project and a report of CIHS donations to the Canadian Museum of Immigration History. Finally, there are sadly three new names in our in memoriam segment: Jean-Paul Delisle, Victor Majid and Dr. Robert J. Shalka.
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