My mother and birth father on their wedding day, June 1953, at City Hall, in New York City. As Mom was living in Canada and there was a Dominion-wide holiday for the Queen's coronation, she was able to travel to New York where my father was living to get married.

Dad was an artist living in Greenwich Village at the time. The next day, they packed all his belongings and he came up to Canada. He died in 1988, a month to the day before my step-dad died.