Family: Pakistan

Family Dept: It would be simplistic and untrue to say all roads led to Dartmouth, where their home is now and where the family of five is happily ensconced in the community, according to The Chronicle Herald. The Awans quest for a stable, safe life for themselves parents Shazia and Muhammad and three sons and educational opportunities for the boys followed the adults traditional wedding, in 1992, in Pakistan. Then there was a six-year stint for the family in Dubai, a sheikdom on the Persian Gulf and yEARS AGO, back in Pakistan s central Punjab province, the Awan family considered their economic opportunities and assessed their chances for personal growth. But theirs is an intriguing tale, a story of newcomers settling in a place far from their homeland in Asia and adjusting to major changes on a continent a world away. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.