Hearts of Freedom on radio |CBC Ottawa Morning Show

In the 1970s and '80s, Ottawa took in about 4,000 Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian refugees escaping communist regimes after the fall of Saigon. Nationwide, Canada took in tens of thousands more.

Now, some of their stories are being recorded on video for future generations.

Hearts of Freedom is an oral history project that aims to collect the stories of 90 refugees, as well as private sponsors and settlement administrators.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hearts-of-freedom-refugees-oral-history-project-1.5187276

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    Note to Researchers

    A consent form was signed by each of the interviewees whose videos are posted here on the website. They have each consented to making the video available to the public and they have consented to the use of the contents of their videos by the Hearts of Freedom project researchers. Consent is not available to external researchers to quote or publish from it. Researchers interested in the subject have the opportunity to view a documentary film, Passage to Freedom which has been completed and is available through a distributor https://www.mcintyre.ca/ Researchers from the project are in the process of completing a full length book based on the interviews. Once this book is available researchers will have the opportunity to review it and to refer to it for research purposes.