Ginette Leroux

Ginette Leroux was a stenographer working in the Central Processing Office for the Department of Manpower and Immigration in the early 1970s. In 1972, Leroux along with her coworkers Jolène Beaupré and Mary-Ellen Hempel travelled to Kampala, Uganda to assist the Department of Immigration in typing the thousands of visas for the Ugandan Asians who were being expelled under Idi Amin’s rule.

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