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I'm a 65 year old living in Toronto Canada. I started paper scrapping in the 1990s & switched to digital in the early 2000s.
I've been happily married for 35 years with 2 adult children. We have a married adult daughter & a late son. (He had multiple severe disabilities - nonverbal autism, severe intellectual disability, atypical bipolar disorder, epilepsy and was a XYY male. We lost him 5 years ago at age 25 to SUDEP - Sudden Death in EPilepsy). I consider him my greatest teacher. Graham's photo and memorial page are here: https://www.autismbrainnet.org/donor/graham-brown/ (The same photo and tribute are also on the North American SUDEP Registry Our Stories page which he shares with others. Graham's donation was a joint donation to both sets of researchers.)
I'm retired but originally a children's librarian (public library) and then a supply (substitute) teacher. My favourite classes to teach were kindergarten, grades 1-2, middle school and especially special education. I particularly liked teaching students with autism or intellectual disabilities or adhd or learning disabilities or who needed behavioural support.
My hobbies (other than digital scrapping and photography) are knitting, board gaming, reading, journaling especially bullet journals, fountain pens,listening to a wide variety of music, classic movies and foreign language films and cooking (low carb/keto now since it controls my Type 2 diabetes.) I have a big interest in history, geography and different cultures and read a lot in these areas. I mostly read nonfiction but I do enjoy science fiction and fantasy. My husband and I share our home with 3 rescue kitties.
I consider myself a beginner with scrapbook design and I am enjoying learning.
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- 1800 x 1145 pixels
- 6 x 3.82 inches
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I've created a some more Canadian elements I will be uploading all of my Canadian elements and papers (including all those previously uploaded) in a kit "Canadiana Kit" shortly. I will also be uploading more country crests soon.
These new elements include : crests for National Parks (Banff, Jasper and Lake Louise) and for the cities of Vancouver, Victoria and Ottawa. As well, there is a word art with some of the lyrics of O Canada, the national anthem.
This word art features part of the Canadian national anthem, O Canada. This is the official English version. There is also a French version and a bilingual version with both languages.
The music was composed in 1880 by Calixa Lavallée and the French lyrics were written by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. As the song became more and more popular, many English versions were written over the years, including one based on a poem written in 1908 by Robert Stanley Weir. It was Weir's lyrics that became the official English version in 1980. In 2018 the English lyrics were officially changed from “True patriot love in all thy sons command” to “True patriot love in all of us command” to make it more inclusive.
After a hundred years of tradition, it was officially proclaimed Canada's national anthem in 1980. When I was a child (I'm in my 60s), we sang "God Save the Queen" as our anthem in schools in English Canada. In 1967, Canada's centennial year, it was replaced by O Canada.
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