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When the Israel-Hamas war broke out last fall, Haya Elsayyed, a young science student with an interest in biotechnology, was in Gaza visiting her family. She grew up in Gaza City but had been living in Montreal; she never expected to find herself caught in a major conflict zone.

Pretty quickly, she knew she had to get out. Elsayyed, who has Canadian permanent residency, was able to fly out and return to Quebec but her family members couldn’t get a visa to go with her. She had to leave her parents behind. “Saying goodbye to my family was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” she writes in a memoir for Maclean’s about her odyssey.

Now she’s a biology master’s student at the University of Sherbrooke. Her parents have since escaped to Egypt, and now Elsayyed wants them to join her in Canada. “I hold on to hope that, one day, we will build a new life together, free from fear and uncertainty.” Elsayyed’s story, which appears in the October issue of the print magazine, is part of a monthly Maclean’s series called “My Arrival” about the newcomer experience in Canada.

—Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief

PHOTO ESSAY

Photographer Susan Lapides, in her four-decade career, has shot subjects as varied as Khmer Rouge survivors, Connecticut tobacco field workers and ox drovers. One stormy night 17 years ago, she began documenting her family’s summers in St. George, New Brunswick: kids enjoying the icy beach, fishermen out in the Bay of Fundy, and workers at a sardine factory and salmon hatcheries. She photographed restaurants, neighbouring islands, a blueberry farm and more, capturing the gradual transformation of a small town with a rich maritime history. The project became her first book, St. George: Ebb and Flow, which is out now. Here are some of the stories behind the photos.

BIG STORIES

Canada is in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer of all time, as some $1 trillion passes from boomers to their millennial kids. From our October issue, read Katrina Onstad’s feature on how an inheritance-based economy will transform the country.

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CULTURE PICK

The most successful Canadian musical of all time, which made Newfoundland slang mainstream, tells the real-life story of 7,000 stranded visitors in the tiny town of Gander on 9/11. Locals invite strangers into their homes, anxious passengers call family and one couple finds love. The Tony-winning show returns all over Canada: at Ottawa’s National Art Centre, the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium and Toronto’s Royal
Alexandra Theatre, where it sold $1.7 million worth of tickets in a week in 2016.

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