Canadian Filipino
Informing, Engaging and Connecting Community
Like many other skilled immigrants, he did survival jobs like dishwashing and warehouse work. He moved on to house renovation estimating and sales, and later, estimator in a structural steel company. He formed his own contracting construction company which he still runs today.
"Retirement to me is the reward for working all those years...Traveling, volunteering, and just smelling the roses and enjoying life are the things I'm doing now and loving it," he adds.
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
When I was six years old, I experienced what it felt to be left out and excluded. That experience has fueled me to ensure everyone I meet feels seen, heard and loved.
Drawn to archery at the age of 13, Crispin Duenas has a favourite motto: “Practice does not make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect.”
The Canadian Filipino community in Manitoba has said goodbye to Conrad Santos, the first person born in the Philippines to be elected to public office in Canada.