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October 15, 2025January 31, 2026

Special movements

The British Home Children
January 1, 2011April 28, 2026

British Home Children Memorial at Pier 21, Halifax A Silent History: The British Home Children – Lynda Joyce I keep asking myself the same question: How is it that I worked for 30 years in immigration in Canada and overseas, with my first posting in London, England, and yet I never heard about the movement…

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Refugees | Southeast Asians

The Southeast Asian Refugee Movement to Canada: Chronology 1954-1980
January 25, 2026February 17, 2026

We have posted a revised and more complete chronology of developments leading up to and following the start of the movement of Southeast Asian refugees to Canada.

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Refugees | Ugandan Asians

40th Anniversary Lecture: Ugandan Asian Refugee Movement 1972
September 30, 2012January 25, 2026

(Disponible seulement en anglais) Canadian Immigration Historical Society President Mike Molloy will be giving a series of lectures on the 1972 Ugandan Asian refugee movement at universities in Ontario during the month of October 2012. The 1972 Uganda Asian Refugee movement was the first test of Canada’s “Universal” immigration policy as applied to refugees. The…

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Immigration | Refugees | Research

Immigration and Impact – Interactive Timeline
January 17, 2026February 1, 2026

Our partner, The Canadian Museum of Immigration History at Pier 21, has graciously allowed us to link to their integrated timeline of Indigenous and immigration history in Canada. The timeline provides an interactive journey through Canada’s rich immigration history, beginning with the first arrival of humans on the North American continent some 40,000 years ago, through to…

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Foreign operations | Refugees | Southeast Asians | Special movements

A significant fiftieth anniversary
April 30, 2025January 27, 2026

CIHS offers its heartiest congratulations to the Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian communities in Canada on this important anniversary of the 1975 fall of Saigon. Since they first started to come to Canada and especially through Canada’s southeast Asian refugee program, they and their Canadian offspring have contributed to the fabric and success of this country….

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Refugees | Ugandan Asians

Uganda Refugee Movement 40th Anniversary
October 28, 2012January 25, 2026

Forty years ago this August the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin announced the expulsion of most of Uganda’s Asian population. Canada responded by sending a team to Kampala under the leadership of Roger St. Vincent and setting up a special reception facility at Canadian Forces Longue Pointe. Between 6 September and 6 November 1972 the Kampala…

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