She was french Canadian, and grew up in the 1930’s and 40’s in northern Ontario, near the Quebec border, on a farm in the area between the town of New Liskeard and Englehart.
My grandfather was a miner, at a silver mine in nearby Cobalt. He died in 1994 of rheumatoid arthritis.

My grandmother lived in the same house, on the same street in Milton Ontario for over 50 years, much of that on her own after my grandfather died - and the house stayed largely the same that entire time.

For decades, she had an enormous garden with lettuce, beans, tomatoes, and zucchini until about 2016 when she smoothed out all the furrowed rows and planted grass over it all.

She used to have a peach tree in her yard too, and every year she would make jams and can the peaches from it.

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