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What to say?
What to say?

What to say?

Date3/12/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: What to say?: Illegal immigrant Sze Wai Chan wonders what to say in a letter to his wife in Hong Kong; after he applied for legal status in Canada under a government amnesty program and was turned down. He has been here for five years; making about $350 a week as a cook in restaurants in small Ontario towns; and is now working in Toronto.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0023754F
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Dario and Nora Sanchez, (above) the Argentine couple told to quit their jobs, are fully responsible for their misfortune, says one reader. Let them work until their appeal is heard, says another
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7/13/1977
The majority of East Indians do not agree with those types who have been finding fault everywhere in Canada, says immigrant Dip Chakraborty, above. He(...)
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2/13/1978
Looking at pictures of those they left in Scotland, Janice and Norman Dewar say new life in Canada is good
Looking at pictures of those they left in Scotland, Janice and Norman Dewar say new life in Canada is good
12/29/1976
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Gladstone Hall: Facing deportation after a theft conviction, Jamaican-born man says he's a victim of racism
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3/8/1984
Austrian Alfred Haupt, seen here at work, says Canada is a nation of the future
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Must leave: I feel like if I had a gun I could put it to my head and pull the trigger, says Hearo Johnson after he and wife Miles lost immigration case
Must leave: I feel like if I had a gun I could put it to my head and pull the trigger, says Hearo Johnson after he and wife Miles lost immigration case
7/16/1991
Fast friends: Eleanor and David Walker lend support to 20-year-old Habib Hooker, who says he will be tortured or killed if deported to his native Kenya
Fast friends: Eleanor and David Walker lend support to 20-year-old Habib Hooker, who says he will be tortured or killed if deported to his native Kenya
3/21/1991
Teresa Ortiz, pictured with husband Pedro and baby Giselle, says immigration officials will have to come and get her if they want her out of Canada
Teresa Ortiz, pictured with husband Pedro and baby Giselle, says immigration officials will have to come and get her if they want her out of Canada
8/13/1989
Uncertain future: Kerri-Ann Ramgeet-Wynters, 15, is happy in Canada, says her adoptive mother Lorna Wynters
Uncertain future: Kerri-Ann Ramgeet-Wynters, 15, is happy in Canada, says her adoptive mother Lorna Wynters
3/24/1989
Virginians Ray and Anne Smith and baby Rachel moved to Toronto so he could become a developer in the fastest-growing town in the world, but he says Americans aren't made to feel welcome here
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