archival
This day in 1995
Up the shore, 1939
August 1976
Winter 1976
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.