I sift through a small cardboard box that perhaps once held greeting cards, its lid long since gone. For decades it lay under Ernest’s bed in his tiny house. Inside are fragments of a life—tintypes, bank books, notebooks, and postcards from 1919. Piece by piece, they reveal the story of a young prairie farmer building a life after the First World War.

Honouring my 2nd great-grandmother, Céline (Papillon) Fiset—her resilience, struggles, and legacy live on this International Women's Day.