Others followed.

Not all at once.

Not in a single dramatic flight.

In groups, over days and weeks, across country that was cold and open and offered no cover beyond the darkness of October nights on the northern plains.

Approximately 300 people made it to Canada.

The world they found there was not what they had hoped for.

It was not safety in the full sense.

It was another form of displacement, another set of hardships, another collection of losses.