Rod Cantiveros: Filipino Community

Winnipeg Dept: When Rod Cantiveros arrived in Winnipeg with his wife Linda in 1974, he knew very little about his new home. Including the fact that there was a thriving Filipino community already here, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Local performers, as well as dance troupes from the Philippines, make the country's Folklorama pavilion one of the most vibrant of the annual festival. BORIS MINKEVICH / ARCHIVES Enlarge Image Three generations of the Maglalang family represent the faces of the growing Filipino community in Manitoba. "I was just so shocked," said Cantiveros, 69, a journalist and entrepreneur who first came to Winnipeg to work in a garment factory. "I really had no idea what Winnipeg was like. Nobody talked that much about the city and I didn't know anyone from the Philippines who had gone there. But then I arrived, and I found there were so many Filipinos already here. I said to myself, 'How could this be?' " Enlarge Image (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.