CIHS partners with various bodies interested in furthering the knowledge and history of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Programs.
CANADIAN MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION AT PIER 21
We have been a staunch supporter of Pier 21, Canada’s National Immigration Museum since its inception.
Carleton University
The Society collaborates with Ottawa’s Carleton University Ugandan Archive about the 1972 expulsion from Uganda of its Asian population. This is a unique archive that gives insight into the expulsion and subsequent resettlement of over 4,000 Asians in Canada.
We have also become active partners in an oral history project with the Department of Social Work and the MacOdrum Library. The project will create an archive of the stories of southeast Asian refugees who arrived in Canada in the wake of the fall of Vietnam in the late seventies and early eighties. In the first phase we will collect 110 ninety minute oral histories from former Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian refugees living in Ontario and Quebec as well as former sponsors, officials and people involved in organizations like Operation Lifeline and Project 4000. Funding permitting we will collect 100 more in the west and the Maritimes. The Hearts of Freedom project now has it’s own website:
The Society has historical ties to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency. Many of our members worked (or still work) for those departments. Our goals of preserving and publishing the history of immigration and refugee movements to Canada are of direct interest to its employees – past and present.
Hearts of Freedom
Canadians who came here under the ‘boat people’ movement are now telling their stories. CIHS is partnering with the Southeast Asian Canadian community organizations, Carleton University and others to capture the stories – many of which are now on-line, through the ‘Hearts of Freedom’ project. The project will ensure that the settlement experience of these people is preserved and becomes part of Canada’s historical narrative. CBC Radio in Ottawa interviewed one of the individuals who told his story to the project team.
BULLETIN 110 - September 2024
Bulletin 110 focuses on two themes:
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
