A poem penned en-route from Tokyo to Malaysia to pick up refugees.
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Scattered across the world, the Boat People shaped unknown and alien places, into their new homes. Hear their stories of adjusting to their new surroundings.
Air Canada Airlift: Barbara Dunn
Working as a crew member on what we called "The Boat People Charters" was without a doubt one of the highlights of my 32 year career as a flight attendant with Air Canada.
Read MoreRefugee Camp Song
'Ben Bo Luu Lac' by Nguyen Hung Son
This is a song written by a refugee that was very popular in the refugee transit camp named Sungi Begi at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Air Canada Airlift: Monika Hilson
Trying to remember 40 years ago, my first flight to Kuala Lumpur. We were so excited to be able to fly there and ferry a flight to that part of the world. What to encounter - we knew relatively little about the Vietnamese boat people except that they escaped from their homeland by boat and ended up in a refugee camp.
Read MoreBook Sale
So after April 30th (the fall of the South), it was very sad. The Viet Cong made us get rid of all of our books, calling them obscene. I loved those books though...
Read MoreFamily Performing for Tet
So when I arrived it was the 18th of January. About a week later that year it was Lunar New Year, and we had the customary celebrations. I was invited to perform, to sing. I wore a red traditional “ao dai” and sang the song “Xuan mien Nam.”
That New Year, the Vietnamese Students [Youth] Association also danced with me.
Food In Vietnam After the War
[Huong Hoang]: Let’s talk about food, like the other day you were saying here in Alberta we eat so much meat. How was it when you were in Vietnam?
[Vi Nguyen]: No, no way. We didn’t really have meat to eat in Vietnam. Usually everyday at home, we were around 7 or 8, we had maybe 100 grams of meat between us?
Read MoreArriving In Canada
We all took the bus home together. When we got on the bus, your Grandfather told the people on the bus that he hadn’t seen his family for five years, and so they let us all sit together.
Read MoreFirst House, First Car
I lived in a house with six other people. The first Tet (New Year) away from home, was a very sad, but we felt encouraged because we had each other. We were all very close...
Read MoreDental School
This story is about me going back to school in Montreal. The University of Montreal had a program to recertify dentists who had arrived in Quebec from foreign countries...
Read MoreFirst Tet (New Year)
"When I got to Lethbridge, we were maybe seventy Vietnamese people in total, of all ages. We banded together as Lethbridge’s Vietnamese Community..."
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