I was hoping to have photographic evidence with which to enhance this post, but alas, there is none to be found so far.
Colin and I marched in the parade!!
Yes, that parade!
Ironically, on the one day that everyone in Montreal was pretending an Irish heritage, I, Maggie McDonnell, whose biological father was a Dubliner, and whose mother’s family name was O’Keane before my grandfather changed it to the less obviously Irish Catholic ‘Kane’, marched with the Welsh.
Or, more specifically, the Welsh Male Choir.
Ah well, at least I can sing, albeit not in Welsh. And Colin and I were in Wales in December, which is probably more recently than any of our fellow marchers.
If anyone who was at the parade has a picture of the Welsh group, especially if the picture features a woman in a white coat and a small boy with a Welsh flag, please let me know!