Non-European Refugees: Time I and Resettlement Effort

non-european refugees: He had lived through more frightening things than snow, according to CTV. On August 4, 1972, Idi Amin, who was then president of Uganda, ordered 80,000 people of Asian origin out of the country. It scared the hell out of me the first time I saw that much snow here, but that didn't stop me, Mehta says from his home in Kitchener. Others in his family headed to India, where his parents had been born, while some relatives went to England. There were 6,000 Ugandan Asians brought to Canada -- the first time the country took part in a large-scale resettlement effort involving non-European refugees. Mehta says he knew nothing about Canada except that its prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was accepting refugees and treating them well. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.