‘Our family was poor, like everyone else’
Joyce Cundict on pioneer life in rural Alberta
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‘We sold everything from medicine to men’s boots’
Clara Auckland on life in Ontario in the early 1900s
‘I smoke, I drink, I dance. What can I say is my secret?’
Rita Buttiri on finding a home and living a long life in Alberta
‘Marguerite is beautiful and bright’
Marguerite Nerny left Switzerland for a new life in Canada
’I started doing drugs at 12’
Rae-Anne LeBrun turned her life around
‘The sky turned a really strange colour green’
Kevin Shaw was caught in the path of the deadly Barrie tornado
‘They’re dipping their toe in the water with the 100 families’
Jim Chu on the social experiment that brought him to Canada
’When I first started, I was all gangly and awkward’
Debbie Brill figured out how to jump higher
’I don’t want to die on the ground like an animal’
Bill Ayotte attacked a polar bear with a snow shovel
‘I worked on changing the attitude of Quebec women’
Lise Payette, journalist and politician, encouraged Quebec to remember.