VANCOUVER — For most it is the smell of Sunlight soap.
That is the memory many refugees carry after the first two weeks of their suddenly revived lives in Canada: The odour of the laundry detergent in the yellow plastic container that suffuses their blankets and sheets.
Sunlight soap smells to them of … security.[…]
The eastern Europeans were followed by Asian refugees fleeing the U.S. war against Vietnam in the 1970s. In 1972, former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau went out of his way to help tens of thousands of Ismaili Muslim refugees escape dictator Idi Amin’s Uganda.
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