Immigration: Community Hub

New Immigrants Dept: In the hours and weeks that followed, the St. Michel Blvd. community hub became a crisis centre, information central and home away from home for community members desperate for news of loved ones in Haiti, according to Montreal Gazette. According to Maison d'Haiti program director Marjorie Villefranche, the crisis provided a model for cooperation between the Haitian community and Quebec institutions. The lessons learned will prove invaluable as the community welcomes an expected 10,000 new immigrants from the earthquake-ravaged land in the coming two years and when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti at 4:53 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2010, members of Montreal's 90,000-member Haitian community began to gather at the Maison d'Haiti. Now, the community is looking ahead to the arrival of several thousand new Haitian immigrants promised by Canada and Quebec in the wake of the earthquake, which killed 230,000 people and devastated infrastructure in Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. As reported in the news.
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