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Refugee Family and Coquitlam

Vancouver suburb: The suite has been ready for weeks, according to Darrell McLeod, chairman of the refugee sponsorship group at St, according to Huffington Post Canada. Clare of Assisi Parish in the Vancouver suburb. They’re all items donated by a Coquitlam, B.C. community to furnish an apartment that a refugee family will soon call home. But the unit is currently empty because immigration officials haven’t confirmed when exactly the family will arrive in Canada. The family of five are refugees who are not being privately sponsored by the Coquitlam parish. We were expecting them within one week, because we were told once we sign the papers … they could be here in one week or three weeks — and it been over that, McLeod told The Huffington Post Canada in an interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.