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Topic spans: 1975 - 1980
Boat People: A Refugee Crisis
They were prepared to risk everything. In the years following the Vietnam War, over one million refugees fled the war-ravaged countries of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Those Vietnamese who took to the ocean in tiny overcrowded ships were dubbed the "boat people." The survivors sometimes languished for years in refugee camps. The luckier ones were taken in by countries like Canada.
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11 radio clips
National Citizens Coalition anti-immigration campaign
Medium: Radio
Program: Sunday Morning
Broadcast Date: Sept. 23, 1979
Guest(s): Kim Abbott, Ron Atkey, David Somerville, Joseph Wong
Host: Bronwyn Drainie, Patrick Martin
Reporter: Susan Reisler
Duration: 8:42
Globe and Mail advertisement: National Citizen’s Coalition
Last updated:
Oct. 1, 2008
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Television
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Dec. 3, 1960
Annette Toft, formerly of Denmark, becomes Canada's two millionth immigrant since the Second World War.
Television
2:45
Aug. 11, 1986
Fishing boats come to the aid of more than 150 people adrift in two crowded lifeboats in the Atlantic.
National Citizens Coalition anti-immigration campaign.
The CBC Digital Archives Website.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Last updated: Oct. 1, 2008.
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