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Imperial Bank and Quebec City

Rue Saint-Jean: Decades later, he came to own a small bar downtown, on Rue Saint-Jean, according to Globe and Mail. Time passed, his savings grew – laws relaxed – and eventually my great-grandmother and their son, my great-uncle, arrived. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone He arrived in Quebec City in 1912, and started his new life in that other time-honoured occupation: laundry. There a picture from 1962 on my great-uncle mantle today: The Imperial Bank calendar on the wall reads Dec. 10 and it hung beside a license from the Régie des alcools du Québec. In 1970, they sold the bar and opened Restaurant Sam Lee in the borough of Charlesbourg on Boul Henri-Bourassa. His parents, stoic looking, are sitting behind the gum-and-cigarette counter, where they probably held court many days and long nights. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.