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1900-1939
Thousands of Ukrainians fled to Canda to escape from Communism, Civil War, and Soviet occupation -
1950 - 1959
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 -
1960-1969
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker introduced Canada’s first Bill of Rights. -
1970-1990
20,000 soviet jews settled in canada -
1979-1980
More than 60,000 people found refuge in canada after the US lost in the Vietnam War -
1992
5,000 bosnian muslims were admitted to canada to escape the yugoslav civil war -
2006
Canada resettles over 3,900 Karen refugees -
2015
Close to 6,600 Bhutanese refugees arrived in canada and welcomes more than 23,000 iraqi refugees -
2016
Canada resettles around 25,000 syrian refugees -
2017-2018
Canada resettled more than 1,300 survivors of daesh
