HOF105: John Wieler

As an Associate Executive Secretary for MCC Canada (Mennonite Central Committee), John Wieler participated in the creation and signing of a Master Agreement with the Federal government in 1979. The agreement was prepared in order to address the settlement of South East Asian refugees in Canada.

Mr. Wieler travelled to South East Asia to visit several refugee camps. As a result of his observations, he determined that the needs of displaced refugees were significant. As an MCC representative in Asia, he became responsible for the supervision of private sponsorships and the resettlement of refugees in the Mennonite communities across Canada. Throughout his involvement with the refugees John Wieler was instrumental in settling a large number of South East Asian refugees in Canada.

Mennonite Central Committee Document Archives

Mennonite Central Committee in Canada

 
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.