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Thousands of Ukrainians fled to Canda to escape from Communism, Civil War, and Soviet occupation
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The United Nation Convention Relating to Status of Refugees was created. It was an agreement the defined who was a refugee and protocols to help them. Also during this time span, 37,000 Hungarians found refuge in Canada after escaping soviet tyranny
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Prime Minister John Diefenbaker introduced Canada’s first Bill of Rights.
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20,000 soviet jews settled in canada
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More than 60,000 people found refuge in canada after the US lost in the Vietnam War
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5,000 bosnian muslims were admitted to canada to escape the yugoslav civil war
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Canada resettles over 3,900 Karen refugees
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Close to 6,600 Bhutanese refugees arrived in canada and welcomes more than 23,000 iraqi refugees
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Canada resettles around 25,000 syrian refugees
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Canada resettled more than 1,300 survivors of daesh