Escape from Vietnam

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Uyen Vu outside her Toronto home. (Courtesy Stephen Matheuszik)

In 1979, nine-year-old Uyen Vu and her family escaped Saigon by assuming false identities and boarding a fishing boat in the dead of night. Men with guns, bars of gold, divided families, prison time, spectacular failures - and pirates. Hear it all on Escape from Vietnam.

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Vus vacation.jpg The Vus in Canada over 20 years later. (Courtesy Quang and Minh Vu)

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Ten stories of harrowing, exciting and often dangerous escapes to Canada as told by the immigrants and refugees who endured them.

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