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Event - 1978-11-19

Posted June 3rd, 2008 by heritage
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Sunday, 1978, November 19
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Begum Salimah toured Montreal General Hospital and Montreal Children's Hospital.

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Princess Salimah
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Speech at Banquet with Prime Minister of Canada at Toronto Hilton Hotel - 1978-11-19

Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
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Your Excellencies, Your Honours, Your Grace, Chief Rabbi, Honourable Ministers, Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I would like to begin by thanking the Prime Minister of Canada and the Premier of Ontario for the extremely kind messages which they sent this evening. And to thank also the Honourable Lt. Governor of Ontario, the Honourable Minister for Multiculturalism, The Honourable Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and His Worship, the Mayor of Toronto for their very generous and their very kind words about the Ismaili Community and about My wife and Myself.

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Speech at Banquet with Prime Minister of Canada at Toronto Hilton Hotel - 1978-11-19

Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
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tspa_0028783f.jpg

Your Excellencies, Your Honours, Your Grace, Chief Rabbi, Honourable Ministers, Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I would like to begin by thanking the Prime Minister of Canada and the Premier of Ontario for the extremely kind messages which they sent this evening. And to thank also the Honourable Lt. Governor of Ontario, the Honourable Minister for Multiculturalism, The Honourable Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and His Worship, the Mayor of Toronto for their very generous and their very kind words about the Ismaili Community and about My wife and Myself.

Metros Moslems greet Aga Khan - 1978-11-19

Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
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Just as there is only one pope there is only one Aga Khan.
He is 'Imam' - spiritual leader - to the world's 15 million Ismaili Moslems.

And he is in Toronto.

Last night, about 600 of his 10,000 followers in Metro, and 250 or so 'invited guests' - translate that to mean dignitaries and the media - gathered for a sumptuous banquet at the Harbour Castle Hilton Hotel to honour him and Canada.

If you're Catholic, imagine seeing the Pope; if British, the Queen.

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