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Truths Not Often Told: Being South Asian in Burnaby is a new exhibit at the Burnaby Village Museum highlighting the stories of Burnaby’s South Asian Canadian communities as they migrated to Burnaby in the early 1900s to find jobs, experienced restrictive policies, and worked together to build community supports

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