Shahira Patni-Tejpar
Shahira Patni-Tejpar was born in Mbale, Uganda and immigrated to Canada at the age of ten with her parents and three siblings in 1969.
Mrs. Patni-Tejpar recalls her early memories as a child in Vancouver, and her experience adjusting to life in Canada before the influx of Ugandan Asian refugees in 1972. She discusses her family’s role in assisting the incoming Ugandan Asians, and her father’s role in helping to set up some of Vancouver’s early jamatkhanas, and the establishment of the Ismaili community in Canada.
Mrs. Patni-Tejpar is a retired Immigration specialist, and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.