Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010
by
Francis Peddie, Royden Loewen
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material...