Waterloo Carpet Factory and Chagger

picture books: Her grandparents and father worked in a Waterloo carpet factory when they came here in the 1970s, according to The Waterloo Record. Her grandmother learned to read by studying the store flyers that came to the house advertising weekly specials. "They were her picture books," Chagger said. Chagger comes from a working-class Sikh family that immigrated from Punjab, India. Chagger family lived through ugly racism at first, including rocks thrown at their house and graffiti spray-painted on its walls. And they got it. But they always kept their eyes on that better life for which they came to Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.