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Photography Exhibition: Great Glacier

Arthur St Dept: We are all immigrants. Some of us just took a little longer to get here, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The Goodhands steamed here from Scotland in the late 1890s. My maternal grandparents from Scandinavia arrived in 1904 and dawit L. Petros, Proposition 1: Mountain digital print, 2007 / Courtesy of Wedge Collection, Toronto This image is part of the Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography exhibition at the Platform Centre, 121-100 Arthur St., until Dec. 10. Free Press columnist Colleen Simard's Cree ancestors arrived here for good sometime after the great glacier covering the province finally started to recede -- between 12,000 and 10,000 BC. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.