Vietnamese-Canadian Community Marks 50 Years Since Saigon’s Fall
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 3:21 pm
Vietnamese Canadians commemorate the 50th anniversary of Saigon’s fall with reflective gatherings, as community elder Tan Hoang leads a somber event in Edmonton. The anniversary stirs poignant memories of fleeing Vietnam and the bittersweet legacy of exile amid renewed cultural introspection.
EDMONTON — Seventy-year-old Tan Hoang vowed he would never return to Vietnam after fleeing the country with his family on a makeshift wooden boat. Officers in Vietnam remind him of the communist soldiers who once stormed and captured Saigon, the former South Vietnam capital now called Ho Chi Minh…
Tan Hoang, who fled Vietnam with his family, says he plans to gather Wednesday with other Vietnamese Canadians at an Edmonton community centre for a sombre event
Seventy-year-old Tan Hoang vowed he would never return to Vietnam after fleeing the country with his family on a makeshift wooden boat.
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