75,000 refugees have settled in Peel County.
Sam Cronk at the always knocking door display New exhibition in Brampton shows what it was like for some By Stephen Weir “The simple truth is this,” said Sam Cronk as he walked Caribbean Toronto News through a somber new exhibition at PAMA. “ No one wants to be a refugee. It is not something you strive to be. But yet for so many it just suddenly happens. And, I guess it could happen to any of us.” Mr. Cronk is the Senior Curator of History at the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA) in downtown Brampton. Earlier this month, he worked with a Halifax museum to open Refuge Canada, a travelling exhibition in PAMA’s main space gallery. This multimedia exhibition (supported by the TD Bank) is showing at museums and galleries across Canada – PAMA is the only stop in Ontario. “It is hard to believe that the world refugee crisis has impacted Peel,” he continued. “it is estimated that 75,000 refugees have settled in Peel County alone. We aren’t talking