HOF043: LE Hoang Chau

Le Hoang Chau left Vietnam at the age of 16, in November 1979, four years after the fall of Saigon. He remembers boarding an overcrowded boat that was barely 12 meters in length. After spending 5 days at sea, the famished refugees were greeted by Indonesians who cared for them until they boarded a Norwegian ship that brought them to the Galang Refugee camp on Galang Island, one of several islands south of Singapore. He stayed for 4 more months in the camp. He eventually met with Canadian Immigration officials who arranged his private sponsorship in Montreal, Quebec. He arrived at the Longue Pointe military base, in the vicinity of Montreal in April 1980. He stayed there for four days then went to live with his sponsors. He pursued his education, found employment and gained his independence. Today, he is the proud father of 3 children.

Tags: , ,

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.