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on 26 September 1954 to Fred and Doris
Goddard. When Foster was two years old, his parents migrated to Britain, leaving their children with relatives. The family was extremely poor; Foster remembers a childhood where there was rarely enough to eat.
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Thomas, H. Nigel. "Cecil Foster's 'Sleep on, Beloved': A Depiction of the
Consequences of Racism in Canadian Immigration Policy." Journal of Black Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, 2008, pp. 484–501. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40034393.
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Powell, Naomi (19 February 2005). "Redefining race; University of Guelph professor Cecil Foster envisions a Canada where our values, not skin colour, define us (author profile)".
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as the reporter and columnist (1977–79), Foster emigrated to Canada in 1979. He went on to work for the
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