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Lebanese Population: Undated Photo

Heart Attack Dept: Charles Boushey, best known for the downtown Elgin Street grocery store that bears his name, died last Wednesday of a heart attack at age 81, according to CBC. "He was a good man. He sympathized with us immigrants because he was an immigrant himself when he first came to this country He had to work three jobs," said Juana Skrzepa, who worked for Boushey for 35 years after she moved to Canada and an Ottawa businessman who immigrated to Canada as a teenager, worked as a corner-store clerk and then became a pillar of the city's Lebanese population was mourned Monday. The late Ottawa businessman Charles Boushey, right, in an undated photo with wife June, who died before him. Boushey family At his funeral Monday, hundreds of friends and family remembered him as an honest businessman and loving family man. As reported in the news.
@t loving family man, elgin street