Migrants arrive in
Gold River WebPosted Aug 31 1999
5:40 PM PDT
VANCOUVER - The HMCA Algonquin arrived
in the harbour at Gold River this afternoon. On board are
almost 200 people who were transferred from the latest migrant
ship seized off the B.C. coast.
The migrants will now be boarded onto busses and taken the
CFB Esquimalt. Most of the passengers are men but there are
also some women and several juveniles.
The rusty hulk was spotted yesterday after the northern tip
of Vancouver Island. It spent 72 days at sea crossing the
Pacific in the wake of two earlier vessels which brought 250
other Chinese migrants to B.C.
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