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1964-1990

Edith Chu

Born in France to Chinese parents who had migrated through Hong Kong and Europe before settling in Edmonton in 1979, Edith Chu grew up in

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1949-1964

Teuna (Toni) de Jong

Below are excerpts from letters Teuna de Jong wrote to her mother in the Netherlands throughout the 1960s. She and her husband, Jelle, bought a

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1949-1964

Charles Zelensky

Charles Zelensky was born in 1957 at the Edmonton General Hospital, one of seven children of Peter and Ruth Zelensky. Peter was from Winnipeg, MB

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1949-1964

Chrystia Chomiak

Myrna Kostash Chrystia Chomiak grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in a modest bungalow in Canora, a core neighbourhood of Jasper Place. Her parents,

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1949-1964

Barrie Touchings

Barrie Touchings was two years old when his parents bought a house at 10450 154th Street. His paternal grandmother had come from England and grandfather

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1949-1964

Ken (Bud) Newman

Ken (Bud) Newman was raised and attended school in the Town of Jasper Place in the 1950s and 1960s. Both of his parents had grown

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