Obadiah Place
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title:
Obadiah Place
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Obadiah Place is a historic site in Amber Valley, Alberta. It was the homestead of Willis Reese Bowen and later the home of his son Obadiah Bowen, a pastor for the town. Willis Reese Bowen brought his family and four other black Oklahoman families to the Amber Valley in 1911. They had applied for homesteads under Clifford Sifton's immigration campaign to bring new settlers to the Canadian Prairies. Sifton had not anticipated that African Americans would migrate to Canada. Most immigrants were of
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Nitin lakhwani
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah_Place
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2022-11-01T04:27:15Z
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