Montreal Sikh community celebrates Vaisakhi

Montreal Sikh community celebrates Vaisakhi

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Lasalle’s Sikh temple held its annual Nagar Kirtan parade on Sunday. It's a day to celebrate 1699 - the year when Sikhism was born as a collective faith, the harvest season in northern India and the Indian solar new year.

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