Van-Nha Tran
Van-Nha Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam. He was the sixth of ten siblings, and was schooled in a seminary through to high school. He attended the University of Saigon, and married in 1980. After graduating from university, he taught high school. He left Vietnam in 1988 to escape the communist regime. He lived in a refugee camp in Thailand for two years, until he was able to immigrate to Canada through sponsorship by his cousin, who had immigrated in 1975. He arrived in Sherbrooke, Quebec in 1990. He worked at Dunkin’ Donuts through a government-sponsored subsidization scheme for new immigrants. After a year, his boss asked him to become a partner in a new location. After five years of separation, he was reunited with his family in January 1993.