Ottawa Pioneer Residents

  (Mr Mahabeer Mangra and wife, Tholariah.) (Mr Heeraman Mahabeer - 5th from right and left - seen with colleagues and pupils who made up the Bluebells House sports club at the old Jhugroo Primary School.) By Subry Govender One of the residents of Ottawa who emerged as a well-known teacher in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s initially lived in a house in the Munn Road sector of the then Tin Town with his large family of parents, five brothers and one sister. He was none other than Heeraman Mahabeer, who was one of the first local lads to have qualified as a teacher. Heeraman and his siblings first lived in a two-room rented house near their neighbours – the H A Beharees and Ismail Sayeds. Their kitchen and toilet and bathroom were outside the two-room tin shanty. It was here in the tin shanty that Heeraman, his five brothers and one sister were born since August 1938 until July 1960. Heeraman was born on August 8 1938. His brothers – Sulochan was born on December 27 1939; Chrispaul on Octobe