Not long ago, the handful of African immigrants in Rouyn-Noranda, a remote city in northern Quebec, all knew one another.
There was the Nigerian woman long married to a Québécois man.
And, of course, the doyen, a Congolese chemist who first made a name for himself driving a Zamboni at hockey games.
A couple from Benin has taken over Chez Morasse, a city institution that introduced a greasy spoon favorite, poutine, to this region.
And women from several corners of West and Central Africa were chatting at the city’s new African grocery store, Épicerie Interculturelle.
Persons:
Chez, Interculturelle
Locations:
Rouyn, Noranda, Quebec, Nigerian, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congolese, Africa, Benin, West, Central Africa