‘They weren’t happy, I’m-getting-married tears’
Christine Cimolai on having rain on your wedding day
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’He towed me through the snow’
Karen Curtis went into labour during the 1996 Victoria blizzard
‘Joey Smallwood came to my place to play cards’
Frances Peddle befriended the young newspaperman and politician
‘The windows came down, and there they were’
Nancy Harwood met The Beatles on a bridge
’Here I am, a black woman giving freedom to another black woman’
Mayann Francis, the first African-Nova Scotian lieutenant-governor, pardoned Viola Desmond
’So many people identify with that picture’
Warren "Whitey" Bernard was the five-year-old in a famous WWII photo
’She was tossing and turning on the floor. I felt very helpless.’
Mujibur Rahman was forced into the medical profession early
‘Choosing a way of life was easy’
Elizabeth Cooney taught school during the Depression
‘They’d clear the dishes and rub people’s backs’
Dorothy Hollands on nursing, volunteering, and travel
’Everybody took their eyes off the clock’
Gabriela and Sophia Rodriguez are twins born in different years