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BURNABY (UPC) - The Aga
Khan, spiritual leader of 20

million people and “one: of. ,ahitndreds of

the world’s richest “men,
dedicated ., Monday: ‘e the
posed *..Site

conservatively in a dark suit.
“In the past 24 years many

Ismaili
“Jamatkhanas have been built
around the world. I have

of - North Avonly: very-rarely attended the

the position from his father
in 1957 and marked his 25th

anniversary. just two weeks
“ago.

Ismailis Migrated to
Canada in ‘large . numbers

America’s first Ismailia “foundation ceremony of a following political upheavals
prayer house, © ales -Jamatkhana, and I have in east and: central Africa
“Standing “ina cavefiious never’ ‘travelled so far to do - during the 1970's. Many
tent on the grounds of the so.” arrived after Ugandan
proposed $10-million He explained Burnaby dictator Idi Amin con-
building, Aga Khan*:told held special Significance fiscated their property and

about 300° :followers'-and , “b it .is where the expelledthem.
: first: Asmailia ao While Canada may not be

was especially important to..

members of his faith. .
“Why ~ should today’ Ss

simple ceremony on:- the

periphery if Vancouver in

western Canada be so
Significant to so many
members of my community
and to me?” said the 45-year-
old prince, who dressed

prayer: h louse’

‘congregation:
established. .The majority of
: Canada’s 18;000 Ismailis now
live in Toronto and Van-
couver.

Aga Khan - more formally
known as His Royal
Highness, Prince Karim Aga
Khan IV, spiritual leader of
20 million Shia Imami
Ismailia Moslems - inherited

was”

“unique in‘“welcéming “the

victimized to. her shores,
where she stands very nearly
alone is in her en-
couragement to her new
citizens to maintain their
traditions and customs,” said
the Harvard-educated leader
who traces -his lineage back
to relatives “of the prophet
Mohammed.

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Some girls wantto have their picture in their community newspaper.
Some do it:to.get a high-quality, professional: ‘photograph: of themselves.

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Some doit for the money; it’ apaid: mo ‘assignment: -.
Some do it because ‘their boyfriends, hus : or families: encourage them
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STE. ANNE. de BEAUPRE, the pilgrimage to the small he said. And there are alot of other-reasons, too.
Que. (UPC) - With music town 25 miles east of Quebec “The family comes up

playing, children laughing
and families meeting under
large canopy tents, gypsies

from across North America

celebrated the Feast of Saint

City, Frank spent the day
meeting friends and relatives
from across North America
who gathered to take part in
celebrations marking the

every year. One hundred
come one year, another
hundred come the next.”
The gypsies were joined
by thousands of other

News is very ular amon:
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The Sunshine’ Girl in our Sunday and Wednesday

Anne Monday. birth of the gypsies’ patron ilgrims during celebrations Ellsworth Dickson —
saint. anich culminated Monday. 1139 Lonsdale:Ave., . oe sunday

“We come here forhealth, — .. ; Some 80,000 people were North Vancouver wh Fac wy Ss a
happiness, good luck and ‘The trek, which brought estimated to have passed 985-2131 bes north shore
good fortune,” said Mickey members of the Frank family through the basilica’s gates rews
Frank of Rochester, N.Y. from Philadelphia, Pa., New since Friday, seeking the ; hl :

‘One of more than a York, N.Y. and Baltimore saint's reputedly miraculous
thousand gypsies who made Méd., is an annual tradition, cures. —- z

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