Archival materials and resources

 

Case Cluster -- Refugees to Canada

 

Case 1:  Tamil Refuge Seekers 1980s

Case 2:  Tamil Refuge Seekers 2009

Timeline of significant events from both cases

 

Case backgrounder

(Alternate case backgrounder on the Vietnamese Boat Refugees)

Case backgrounder

 

Documents:

Multicultural Canada does not have archives pertaining to the Tamil Refugees on the timeline, but there are materials pertaining to the Vietnamese boat refugees in the 1970s (see Multicultural Canada materials below).

 

Interview on the case of the 155 Tamil boat refugees from 1986

 

Article: Mental health resilience of refugees - Case of the Tamils

 

LA Times: 1986 "Canada Tamils Admit Lifeboat Deception"

 

Accepted on Compassionate Grounds: A Profile of Tamil Immigrants in Canada

 

Philadelphia Inquirer: Unraveling the mystery of Tamils' flight to Canada

 

Willmington Morning Star: Sri Lankans Left for Canada from Germany, Police Say

 

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, beaconed to Tamils in torment

 

152 Found in lifeboats arrive in Newfoundland

Documents:

Globe and Mail headline: Seeking a safe haven, finding a closed door

 

Blog containing text from a Globe and Mail article

 

canada.com Mystery ship intercepted left India last month records show

 

National Post Opinion piece (Blog) "Canada's Blind Spot on Terrorism"

 

Sri Lankan News Blog: Major defeat for the LTTE lawyers in Canada

 

LankanNewspapers.com: Ocean Lady becomes Princess Easwari -- One confirmed LTTE terrorist already identified... WELCOME to Canada

 

National Post: Cargo ship passenger wanted in Sri Lanka for terrorism

 

canada.com: Court slams IRB for Tamil's release: Possible Terrorist; Refugee board ignored safety fears

 

CBC News online: Tamil Tigers

 

Tamil Star reprint of Globe and Mail article

Images:  

  1. Vietnamese Boat refugees 1970s
  2. UNHCR.org: Vietnamese boat people
  3. Citizenship and Immigration Canada: Arrival of a small boat with 162 Vietnamese refugees on board

 

Images:

  1. Vancouverite.com immigrant vessel
  2. Canada.com image of "Ocean Lady"
  3. A displaced persons camp in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. Photo by IRIN.

 

Videos:

  1. CBC Archives: Tamil refugees
  2. CBC Archives: Boat People: A Refugee Crisis
  3. YouTube: 60 Mins clip from 1979 on Vietnamese boat refugees

 

Videos:

  1. CBC online: Canada Adds Tamil Tigers to Terrorist Watchlist 2006
  2. YouTube: World Tamil Movement banned in Canada
  3. YouTube: Human Chain Protest in Toronto Canada against Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka 16-March-2009

Additional resources:

Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900–1977 on Vietnamese Boat People

 

Canadian Encyclopedia entry: Refugees

 

Canadian Encyclopedia: Immigration/Refugee Controversy

 

A hundred years of immigration to Canada 1900 - 1999 A chronology focusing on refugees and discrimination (very detailed)

Additional resources:

 

Immigration Watch Canada: Mar 2006 "Three Ways to Fight Terror

 

Gov't Site: Public Safety Canada: Currently listed entities

Other materials:

The items below may be located in public libraries in major centres and then may be photocopied and used by teachers in the classroom, but copyright laws prevent us from providing a digital copy of them:

 

Globe and Mail article, Tuesday August 12, 1986: "152 Adrift in two lifeboats rescued off Newfoundland" front page

 

Globe and Mail article, Wednesday August 13, 1986: "Castaways thought they would die in boats" front page A

 

Globe and Mail article, Wednesday August 13, 1986: "152 can stay if nationality is confirmed" front page B

 

Globe and Mail article, Saturday August 16, 1986: "Human Contraband" page

 

Globe and Mail article, Wednesday August 13, 1986: "A Passage to Canada" page 6

 

 

Multicultural Canada materials on the Vietnamese 'Boat People':

Multicultural Canada article on Vietnames Boat refugees of 1970s

Multicultural Canada - Vietnamese Boat People collection (audio recordings)

Other materials relating to the Vietnamese Boat People:

A Scattering of Seeds: The Boat People

Canadian Encyclopedia: Southeast Asians

Vietnamese "Boat People" in Vancouver

Asylum Granted to the Vietnamese Boat People - June 26, 1977

Some boat people still searching for a future

 

 

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