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Category: Health and Social Services

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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1964-1990

Shirley Romany

Donna Coombs-Montrose Shirley Romany of a large singe-parent family, arrived in Canada from her native Trinidad and Tobago with early hair styling training in 1963,

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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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1990-Present

Cynthia Palmaria

Cynthia Palmaria was born and raised in the Philippines. Her parents joined the first stream of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) who came to Canada in

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1964-1990

Constance Thomas

Constance Thomas was born in the Commonwealth of Dominica and migrated to Canada in 1974 after receiving Registered Nurses (RN) training at the University Hospital

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