National Adult Literacy Database

May 26, 1997

Ranjeet Jhass has been a part-time student in the Selkirk Independent Learning Centre, Manitoba for a number of years. She has been working on her English skills, both oral and written as well as doing work on a computer. Ranjeet enjoys travelling, sewing, knitting and cooking- as well as having stories published.

My Story

by Ranjeet Kaur Jhass

I came to Canada in 1975. We bought a house in St. Vital in Winnipeg.

My boys started to go to school and I started working in a sewing factory. I was sewing sports jackets for a year, then I quit. In 1976, I saw an ad in the newspaper. I got a job in Paulin Chambers Ltd. Biscuits. I worked there for 3 and a half years. Then we moved to Selkirk. In 1980, we bought a shop and I was working at the Vantasy factory in Selkirk. After one and a half years the factory closed. I stayed home two years. I was very sad. I sewed my own outerwear and knitted and cooked.

[This story was taken with permission from the "Manitoba Literacy Star", Spring 1996 edition, Portage-La-Prairie, Manitoba].