Posts Tagged famous canadian immigrants
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Naheed Nenshi - first Muslim mayor of a Canadian major city
On October 18, 2010 at the Calgary municipal election, a son of immigrant parents won over 39% of the votes to become the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city. The victory was compared to US President Obama's election victory, as the ne
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Emma Donoghue - Irish Canadian immigrant author
Welcome to the strange little world of ROOM, the seventh book of Irish Canadian author, Emma Donoghue. The book "Room" revolves around the story of Jack and Ma, who live in a locked room that measures eleven foot by eleven. When Jack turns
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Afghan-Canadian immigrant is Oprah of Afghanistan
Vancouver-raised Mozhdah Jamalzadah immigrated to Canada at the young age of five with her parents and two younger brothers from war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan. Eventually, they settled in Vancouver, BC, where Mozhdah Jamalzadah attended high schoo
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Famous Canadian-Iranian Immigrant Nazanin Afshin-Jam
A "difficult-to-pronounce" or an "foreign-sounding name" did not stop Nazanin Afshin-Jam becoming famous in her adopted country of Canada. Canadian-Iranian Immigrant Nazanin Afshin-Jam immigrated to Canada with her family at a young age of 2. Ble
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Croatian Canadian Entrepreneur
He is famous as a successful Canadian entrepreneur, but today Robert Herjavec is more famous internationally, as one of the dragons in the Canadian Dragon Den, or one of the sharks in the USA TV show Shark Tank. Robert Herjavec is a Croatian-Canad
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Sandra Oh and Father
Here is Sandra Oh with her father on The Bay's Ad for Dolce Gabana perfume. This ad was shown in The National Post and The Globe and Mail newspapers. The caption says: My parents started me in dancing to correct my pigeon toes but I caught
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