By THERESA REDULA
Published July 29, 2025
When Forrest Pass, curator for Library and Archives Canada (LAC), first dug into the history of Filipinos in Canada, he was only expecting to find some isolated or unusual cases of individuals migrating from the Philippines.
Benson Flores, the first known Filipino settler in Canada.
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