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Vietnamese Canadians singing during Lunar New Year at St. Joseph's Church, Vancouver. Mainstream Vietnamese communities began arriving in Canada in the mid-1970s and early 1980s as refugees or boat people following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, though a couple thousand were already living in Quebec before then, most of whom were students.
After the fall of South Vietnam in April 1975, hundreds of thousands of refugees, called boat people, fled Vietnam and adjacent nations. According to Canadian immigration historian Valerie Knowles, from 1979 to 1980 Canada admitted an estimated 60,000 of these refugees, "most of whom had endured several days in small, leaky boats, prey to ...
In 1972 the first Vietnamese association in Toronto was founded. The Fall of Saigon in 1975 resulted in the first wave of Toronto's Vietnamese refugees. [2] Between 1979 and 1982 12,000 persons fleeing Vietnam arrived in Toronto, and the city's Vietnamese population, including both Kinh people and Vietnamese Chinese, was about 30,000 by 1986. [3]
Arun Daniel and his mom, Suguna, first touched Canadian soil two weeks ago and, on Wednesday, they first touched ice. Canadian refugees embrace their new home by learning how to curl Skip to main ...
Starting in 1965, Canada became the main haven for Vietnam War resisters. Canadian immigration policy at the time made it easy for immigrants from all countries to obtain legal status in Canada, and classified war resisters as immigrants. [3] There is no official estimate of how many draft evaders and deserters were admitted during the Vietnam War.
Vietnamese boat people awaiting rescue. Vietnamese boat people (Vietnamese: Thuyền nhân Việt Nam) were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its highest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but continued well into the early 1990s.
The Vietnamese community in San Jose is one of the country's largest and city leaders say there is a lot to lose under the Trump Administration's re-interpretation of a decade-long agreement with ...
'We have to give back,' the daughter of Vietnamese refugees in Washington state says of her community's efforts to help families that fled Afghanistan.