Memere’s hockey uniform, circa 1934

My mémère gave me this photo of herself in Montreal at 18 when I was around the same age, also in Montreal. I’d registered to play hockey in my first year of uni, but unsurprisingly, I only made it to a single horrid and humiliating game. She told me that she’d played street hockey with boys and when a puck to the face had given her a black eye the supermarket manager where she worked fired her. A coworker argued in her defense and she was rehired, maybe after she’d healed.

This photo was taken on rue Adam around 1934.

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