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Canada--Culture Life in Canada Personal 

Celebrating Long Life Together

2018/09/202021/01/09 Prof Ron anniversary, Canada, celebration, Family, marriage, tradition

Do opposites attract? Anniversaries come every year, but some are more special than others. A few days ago my wife

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Canada--Culture Christmas Life in Canada Personal 

Celebrating Christmas – Jigsaw Puzzle

2017/01/082019/12/14 Prof Ron celebration, Christmas, jig-saw, jigsaw, puzzle

The Christmas – New Year holiday is a special time for family and friends to get together. Friends may drop

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Life in Canada Personal 

Celebrating Christmas 2016 — Memory Albums

2016/12/242017/09/30 Prof Ron Christmas, Family, memories, memory books

Of the many insights into Christmas celebrations that I could share with my QQ friends this year, let me just

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Canada--Culture Canada--History Life in Canada Personal Reflections on Life Translations -- Chinese 

Charity Work Articles

2011/07/072019/07/13 Prof Ron Canada, charity, Christian, NGO, tradition

Recently I was asked by Chinese academics to explain some of my involvements with charity groups. I am in the

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Canada--Culture Canada--Events Christmas Life in Canada Personal 

Christmas Traditions in Canada

2009/12/312020/01/06 Prof Ron Canada, Christmas, culture, foreign students, hoar frost, international students, Regina, Saskatchewan, tradition, Western, winter

Christmas in Western Canada would not really be Christmas without snow and cold weather. Winter normally starts about the end

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Canada--Locations Life in Canada Personal 

Travel to Flin Flon, Manitoba

2009/11/232016/10/31 Prof Ron Canada, countryside, Family, farm, Flin Flon, funeral, Hanson Lake Road, harvest, Manitoba, mining town, photography, Saskatchewan, Travel, winter

I’ll post just a few photos here of my recent travel to a town where we used to live, and

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