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By Balwant Sanghera – TWENTYNINETH IN A SERIES ON MY LIFE The aviation industry in early 1960s was just growing. When I landed at Vancouver airport from New Delhi, via Tehran, London, Prestwick and Winnipeg at the end of January, 1966our Vancouver airport was still very small. It is now the South terminal for mostly local air traffic. Since then, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) has undergone tremendous growth. It has now become one of the best airports in the world. Another interesting feature of YVR is that it is the only airport in the world that greets passengers in Punjabi along with some other languages. This is a reflection of the Punjabi community’s contribution and recognition. It has been a very tough and challenging struggle for our pioneers and their descendants to reach this point. From a few hundred of our pioneers at the beginning of the twentieth century, our community has now grown to more than a million. A recent headline in the media, including the popula

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