Remembering the Indochinese Refugee Movement
Note de la rédaction: Pour souligner le 40° anniversaire de la « chute » de Saigon à la fin d’une guerre particulièrement triste au Vietnam et dans la région, bout de papier jette un regard sur le rendement extraordinaire de nos missions…
Saving Lives: Canada and the Hai Hong
by Dara Marcus
Tom Delworth
Tom Delworth was born in Toronto in 1929 — a child of the Depression. He attended Weston Collegiate in Toronto and Victoria College at the University of Toronto, where he was a student in honours psychology. He received his BA in 1951.…
Bangkok and Beyond
Life is an ever-changing journey, and in spite of recent events in our troubled world we must continue on our way. We have to keep moving, experiencing new cultures, learning and broadening our horizons. This is what keeps us alive.
Canadian Peacekeepers in Indochina 1954–1973: Recollections
In 1631, a year before he died in Milan, Fr. Christoforo Borri, S.J., one of the first missionaries to Cochin-China, wrote in his “Relacione della nueve missione … al Regno della Cocincina” that the first strangers to arrive in Vietnam were shipwrecked…
Hanoi Sojourn: An Opera House Reborn
She would not be the first one to admit it, but, perhaps what drew Louise Buhler to the Hanoi Opera House was the unique space it created, which was at once both architecturally charming, yet ghostly and timeless. Like the opera house…
Un passage au Vietnam
En novembre 1997, je suis revenue à Hanoi dans le cadre du Sommet de la Francophonie, en devoir temporaire pour la troisième fois. La première fois fut en 1992 quand j’accompagnai le ministre Michael Wilson en tant qu’agent du Bureau du protocole.…
