Uganda rug merchants doing business on Yonge St

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Uganda rug merchants doing business on Yonge St

Date1/17/1973

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Spremo, Boris (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Uganda rug merchants doing business on Yonge St. are I. A. Khan (right) and Ahmid Zahid; Kaln was a merchant and Zahid a student in Kampala when the Ugandan government ordered the expulsion of 60;000 East Asians. Khan and Zahid are adapting to life here and say they have been made welcome.

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