Shelter: Downsizing and upgrading in Notre-Dame-de-L’île-Perrot.

Angela Dennett Rice recalls that when she came to Canada in 1976, it was more or less by accident. She had suffered a broken romance and knew she had to get away from her native Dorset, England, where she lived in a “little country town”. She was prepared to “do anything” and “go anywhere”. Among the options she considered was moving to South Africa or working on a cruise ship. In the end, she got a job as a nanny in Montreal.
She landed in the West Island, wh