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Tag Archives: April 2013

The Southern Yarn – April 2013

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The April issue of The Southern Yarn is now available for you to download. You can get it directly here.

This entry was posted in Membership and tagged April 2013, newsletter, Southern Yarn on April 9, 2013 by Hydesmith.

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The Down Under Club of Winnipeg meets on Treaty 1 territory in the Province of Manitoba and the homeland of the Métis Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we live and gather, and all the lands from whence we came, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Canada. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the elders past, present and emerging.

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