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THE PEACOCK BEAN PARADOX 

THE PEACOCK BEAN PARADOX 

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Both of my parents emigrated from Europe to Canada soon after WW2. People of the Netherlands, like other Nazi-occupied countries, were struggling to recover after the devastation of war. During the immediate years that followed, the Netherlands government encouraged citizens to leave, and between 1946 and 1968 the Dutch were the fifth largest group of […]

Words by Joyce Lindemulder
Photos by Re Bastien

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