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East Indians on Canada’s West Coast Make Special Appeal to Ottawa Vancouver, Jan.—(C.P.)—If the average Mrs. Canuck thinks butter rationing is putting a crimp in her daily menu she should con sider the plight of Sikh house wives. Sikhs are familiar figures on the streets of Vancouver. Tur baned and bearded, these East Indians have, among other things, monopolized a share of the city’s wood business. The food of the Sikhs is a story in itself. On the average, each consumes (or used to consume,) one pound of butter a day. When a hardworking Sikh wood-trucker sits down to the table he doesn't say “pass the butter.” He hauls out a 50-pound box and digs in. Pacticallys the Sikh eats is in butter. Chicken, their favorite meat, is boiled in it and the vegetables as well. A sikh likes butter so much he likes to sit down, peel off the wrapper like a banana skin and munch away on a pound. Typical is the Tara Singh family of Vancouver—mother, father and three youngsters. Between them they used two-and-a-half pounds of butter daily. With rationing in effect their quota will be two and-a-half pounds a week. However, the Sikhs won't give up their precious butter without a fight. They have besieged ra tion board officials and through the Khalsa Diwan Society have even made representations to Ot tawa.
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Corner Brook Western Star
Corner Brook, Newfoundland, CA
Fri, Jan 29, 1943
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