On my mother’s side of my family, the Wickware/Watling side, we have two adoption stories. One began in 1950, and the other in 1994. The former was a secret until 1997, and the latter was recently documented in Deborah A. Brennan’s book Labours of Love: Canadians Talk About Adoption.
My maternal grandparents, Bernice (Bernie) Wickware and Eric [...]