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Finalist, James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, 2022 Alberta Literary Awards
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While original Burger Baron franchises vanished from Quebec, Ontario, California, and even Calgary in the 1970s, a new generation bloomed in and around Edmonton. More than just a means of feeding Albertans, the restaurants fed and sheltered a generation of Arab immigrants.”

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