The town of Boucherville, fac­ing Mon­tre­al from across the St. Lawrence. In the dis­tance can be seen Mont Saint-Hilaire, an extinct vol­cano with a crater lake on its sum­mit. To the left of this, and just at the hori­zon, is the tiny vil­lage of Sainte-Madeleine, where my moth­er was born. Beyond the hori­zon are the Mégan­tic Moun­tains, an exten­sion of the Green Moun­tains of Vermont.

Yel­lowknife, North­west Ter­ri­to­ries, some­time in the 1960s.