• How We Met

    DEBBIE & STEVE Debbie and Steve crossed paths as students while living in co-op housing in Kingston, ...

    DEBBIE & STEVE Debbie and Steve crossed paths as students while living in co-op housing in Kingston, Ontario in 1978. “We met socially,” says Debbie, “and started dating soon after.” She then move ...

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    Mom Week When Robert, a Canadian-UK citizen, came home to Canada to visit his parents in May, he asked hi ...

    Mom Week When Robert, a Canadian-UK citizen, came home to Canada to visit his parents in May, he asked his mom if she’d like to come to London in June. “No,” she said, having just returned from a week ...

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    Stuart & Amanda Stuart and Amanda met in the mid-1970s, in their late 20s, at a press conference in M ...

    Stuart & Amanda Stuart and Amanda met in the mid-1970s, in their late 20s, at a press conference in Montreal. Both journalists, he was based in Toronto and she in Vancouver, where much of her fami ...

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    Coincidental Sisters When Swiss-born Ursula joined the staff at one of the Vancouver School Board’s job s ...

    Coincidental Sisters When Swiss-born Ursula joined the staff at one of the Vancouver School Board’s job sites, she immediately came over to me after the staff introduction and said, “I have a sister n ...

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    JEAN & MARIA At their mutual friend Angela’s family home in Heidelberg, Jean, a Parisian, and Maria, ...

    JEAN & MARIA At their mutual friend Angela’s family home in Heidelberg, Jean, a Parisian, and Maria, a Lebanese-Brazilian from Sao Paulo, first met in the late 1960s. Both in their 20s, they cross ...

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    FRANCO AND SYLVIE It was one of those cinematically inspired eyes-across-a-crowded-room meetings, in 1978 ...

    FRANCO AND SYLVIE It was one of those cinematically inspired eyes-across-a-crowded-room meetings, in 1978, at an art gallery opening downtown. He was in Vancouver on assignment for the European public ...

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    LYNN & MO Lynn and Mo began their lifelong friendship when Mo met the Long Island Train from Manhatta ...

    LYNN & MO Lynn and Mo began their lifelong friendship when Mo met the Long Island Train from Manhattan in the summer of 1969. In their twenties, they had each just relocated to New York City - fro ...

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    MY RMT I first met her while I was face down on her massage table. She was referred by my regular guy, wh ...

    MY RMT I first met her while I was face down on her massage table. She was referred by my regular guy, who had left the city. She asked me what kind of music I’d like to listen to during the massage, ...

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    HENDRIKA & WILLEM When Hendrika, the second eldest of 11 children, emigrated to Canada from Holland i ...

    HENDRIKA & WILLEM When Hendrika, the second eldest of 11 children, emigrated to Canada from Holland in 1959 with her family, she didn’t know that Willem, a young Dutch engineer had also arrived in ...

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    JANE & BRENTMost people can recall their first love. I never forgot mine. It was a sunny spring day i ...

    JANE & BRENTMost people can recall their first love. I never forgot mine. It was a sunny spring day in 1970 and I was careening down a ski run on Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain. My arms were bare to ...

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