When my Grandma Madeleine was four, her mother, Florence, took her and her two older sisters, five and seven, out to the Montréal shopping district to buy new shoes. It was 1934, almost five years
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Baby Names
How do you feel about these off-the-wall names that some of my early Québecker ancestors gave their children? Girls SymphoroseTheotisteMarcellineJosephteApollineScholastiqueCedeliceHarmoniaZelire Boys SilfroyPolydoreEnguerrand This could very well be a nuclear family (1907)Some rights reserved by UpNorth Memories -
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Some people call them hope chests or bottom drawers. My mother calls them glory boxes. In Western cultures, they are places where little girls store their trouseaux — linens and other items they have made
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