See also

  • |

    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 to let us know. We will…

  • |

    Roger St. Vincent’s autobiography

    The Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa, has made Roger St. Vincent’s autobiography, “A Very Fortunate Life”, available on line. The autobiography includes accounts of Roger’s wartime service with the RCAF, his time with the Canadian Government Immigration Mission, the entire text of  “Seven Crested Cranes” – his account of the Uganda Asian movement, and…

  • |

    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…

  • |

    Memories of Kosovo

    The ‘Operation Parasol’ anniversary conference that CIHS supported is now online. We have also marked the 25th anniversary of the evacuation to Canada of 7000 Kosovar Albanians with a special Bulletin and a posting of ‘Memories of Kosovo’ (63.7 MB)/ Souvenirs de Kosovo (57MB) , posted courtesy of and with the collaboration of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada.

  • | | |

    Resettlement of southeast Asian refugees (1979-1981)

    Interview with Brian Bell, Chief of Policy, Settlement Services, EIC (1979-1981) “[I]t was the people from top to bottom, and it was the times. The department had gone from … between the 60s to the 90s … from Manpower and Immigration with a very strong employment orientation, to the 80s where there was a real…