February 13, 2010:

The Ottawa and Gatineau areas have been settled in large part by organized group migrations, beginning with the
Highland Scots to Glengarry, the Lowland Scots who came to Lanark Township, Philomen Wright and his settlers in 1800,
disbanded soldiers  from the 99th Regiment who settled in Goulbourn Township in 1818. In 1823, Peter Robinson brought about 500 mostly
Irish Catholics from the north of County Cork, Ireland to settle just west of Kanata. There was a large influx of labourers,
mostly Irish and French who came to build the Rideau Canal between 1826 and 1832. In 1834, William Farmer and some of his
tenants and neighbours came from England and built a community on the Gatineau River at Farmer's Rapids. Between 1846 and 1854, many
Irish came here during the potato famine. All of these group migrations led to subsequent immigration of friends and relatives from 
the old countries to the Ottawa area, by a process known as chain migration.

One of the most recent migrations came from Vietnam in the late 1970's. These people were known globally as "Vietnamese 
Boat People". Project 4000 was a program administered to help these folks adjust to new life in the Ottawa area. Our mayor at the time,
Marion Dewar was a main force in this program.

Below are three contemporary articles from the Ottawa Citizen which describe the
anticipated arrival, then a bit about the settlement process, and finally, a nice story about Mr. Luong who, five years later,
was living on Tweedsmuir Avenue in Westboro.

Newspaper Article Source: Ottawa Citizen, July 10, 1979, page 7






Newspaper Article Source: Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 1979, page 10



Newspaper Article Source: Ottawa Citizen, July 30, 1984, page 14