This is the first page of my mother’s Spring 2008 article in Caledon Living that was published shortly after the passing of my grandmother, Venta Janosik-Wronski (nee Boukalders). Her memoirs inspired me to do my Masters in History and my thesis based on her journey from Czarist Russia to Canada. Now a freshly minted 29, I plan to get cracking on a novel based on this and honour her memory.