How does a high school drop out build a warehousing & distribution business worth $35 million? Ask Bob Dineen. He quit school before finishing grade 10, and through hard work and determination, eventually started his own business. Now he offers his expertise to others who feel like round pegs in square holes at school.

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A Story Terrace Project.

The story of how one family's determination to leave the totalitarian abuse of Eastern Europe behind led son Serge Kujawa to become one of Canada’s preeminent Crown prosecutors responsible for handling some of the country’s most notable criminal cases, including the Colin Thatcher murder.

 

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Nizar Velji was sure he was going to be shot when Idi Amin's men pulled him out of his car and chased him with rifles. He ended up beaten and in hospital, but with an undaunted spirit, he managed to emigrate his family from Uganda to Canada. He thought he'd escaped change when Idi Amin took over Uganda, but in Canada he faced a whole different set of challenges.

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A Story Terrace Project

Herein is a history of the HVAC industry, a family memoir and a corporate history of the 100-year-old Calgary firm H.F. Clarke.

 

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"I want to leave the story for my grandchildren of how we escaped communism in Bulgaria and came to Canada," Svetla Dolptchieva told me as we began her memoir.

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This is the story of Lieutenant-Commander D.T. Tudor, who was evacuated to Canada from Wales with the onset of WWII and joined the Royal Navy at 16. His first submarine assignment after training was to pull bodies from the water on D-Day.

 

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