Florence was only a small child when her family fled Vietnam in 1979, but the memories of that sometimes harrowing journey are vivid. Crowded into a small boat, the family spent four days on the South China Sea. “We were attacked by pirates three times,” says Florence. “I was too young to know...

When she first came to Canada from Lebanon, Vivian juggled two jobs and motherhood with university classes and adjusting to life in a new country. Thirteen years later, she is a manager in Alberta’s department of education and has just welcomed the rest of her family to this country. Vivian believes...

It’s a long way from Tehran to St. John’s, but Sepideh is glad she made the trip. The Iranian-born-and-trained physician immigrated to Canada with her husband and young daughter in the summer of 2002. Sepideh says they left behind a good life. “I’d been practising medicine for five years....