At my paternal grandparents' house - February 1999

This is at my father's parents' apartment. My grandfather Normand was eighty at the time, and still very active - bowling twice a week, gardening, shoveling neighbours' driveways, doing work for the church and the funeral home... My grandmother Jeanne is sprightly and has the very sharp mind of an atheist. If she had been born in another time and another place, more enlightened in its perception of women, she might have achieved great things.