Director, John N. Smith ; producer, Sam Grana ; executive producer, Colin Neale ; associate producer, Paul Pope ; script, Sam Grana, John N. Smith ; photography, David De Volpi, Roger Martin, K. Shanmuganathan, Martin Duckworth ; sound, Jacques Drouin, Roshan S. Perera ; editing, John N. Smith, Martial Éthier, Sam Grana ; sound editing, Raymond Vermette ; music recording, Louis Hone, Don Walsh, Dave Panting ; re-recording, Hans Peter Strobl ; music, Sridas Sivasambo, Vasudevan Govindarajan, Himmat Shinhat, null Sithiravel, null Sundaram, Anandprasad Pathanjali, Gordon Quinton, John Lacey, Boyd Norman, Charlotte Bradley.

Cast, Charlene Bruff, Madonna Hawkins, Nirmalan Masilamany, Anandprasad Pathanjali, Beverly Power, Francis Power, Rosie Power, Kumar Singam Nadarajah, Murugesu Sivanesan, Sinnakili Baskaran.

Recorded 1989.

A feature drama based on an actual incident in 1986, Welcome to Canada chronicles the illegal landing of a boatload of Southeast Asians on Canada's east coast. Rescued from certain death at sea by a group of fishermen, the eight Sri Lankan Tamils find temporary sanctuary in an isolated outport in Newfoundland. In this warm portrayal of an unusual encounter between two cultures worlds apart, director John N. Smith humanizes the immigration statistics.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).