Our Story

Grannie Wonderful, Our North Star
Grannie Wonderful, or Diane Weldon Pitfield McAvoy, is our North Star. She left us on September 1st, 2018. She passed away in Ottawa while part of her family, including a...
Grannie Wonderful, Our North Star
Grannie Wonderful, or Diane Weldon Pitfield McAvoy, is our North Star. She left us on September 1st, 2018. She passed away in Ottawa while part of her family, including a...

Mamie Merveilles, Our étoile polaire
Mamie Merveilles, or Nicole Marie Jauvin, is our étoile polaire. She left us on September 28th, 2022. In Ottawa, where she took her final breath, the air was warm and...
Mamie Merveilles, Our étoile polaire
Mamie Merveilles, or Nicole Marie Jauvin, is our étoile polaire. She left us on September 28th, 2022. In Ottawa, where she took her final breath, the air was warm and...

Why we do what we do
September is the most beautiful month of the year. Of course, the one writing this is biased—it’s the month of her birth! The return to school, fresh beginnings, the golden...
Why we do what we do
September is the most beautiful month of the year. Of course, the one writing this is biased—it’s the month of her birth! The return to school, fresh beginnings, the golden...

Our étoile polaire and our North Star
Mamie and Grannie embodied intelligence, kindness, and critical thinking. You can imagine, then, the comfort we felt in visiting them. We’d share our worries—not small talk about the weather. We...
Our étoile polaire and our North Star
Mamie and Grannie embodied intelligence, kindness, and critical thinking. You can imagine, then, the comfort we felt in visiting them. We’d share our worries—not small talk about the weather. We...