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A Surrey mother believes racism was behind a recent demand that her family prove they were allowed to use the pool in their own townhouse complex.

Guerda Henry went for a swim Thursday afternoon with her two daughters, ages 1 and 13, at the pool shared by three developments at Brooklands, where she bought a home two years ago.

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Henry, a health care worker who moved to Surrey from the Bahamas in 2013, said the three of them, along with a few close family friends, used her key fob to enter the Panorama Clubhouse. But before they could set down their towels, a caretaker approached them warning them of “concerns” from residents who believed they should not be there. The caretaker apologized, but pressed for an explanation as to how they entered the pool area.

Henry said she then held up her fob and explained she was an owner.

The caretaker said she’d been sent over by a man who was certain Henry and her family were from a different complex, and was being extra cautious after reports of people jumping the fence at night and engaging in “explicit behaviour,” Henry said.