Chapter 10 - A Rainbow Society

Most of them never met. Most of them knew little of each others’ homeland. Yet women from around the world stitched their diverse cultures together across the broken landscape of this province like the panels of a many-coloured quilt. From Africa by way of the United States, from the South Sea Islands, from China and Japan, from the ghettos of Eastern Europe and from the dusty Punjab, the women who came to settle British Columbia’s frontier came from everywhere. Some came in search of...

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