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Refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

A monument to the Asian boat people in Ottawa, photographed in 2015.
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Between 1975 and the 1990s, Canada admitted more than 210,000 refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos who fled persecution and violence after the wars there. After the Hai Hong incident in 1978, tens of thousands of Canadians and many organizations sponsored refugees, and the newcomers built communities across Canada.

Scope & context

The refugee movement and Canadian sponsorship, not individual communities or later immigration policy.

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