Ninety-two years ago, Veneta, unaccompanied and with only a note pinned to her clothing, crossed the border from Canada into the United States. That was a major moment in her journey from her birth in Nova Scotia, to her current residence in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts. There were stops along the way, important stops, that provided many memories that will carry the reader from one junction to the next. They will meet the child, the little girl, the young woman, and finally the mother who has become the matriarch of her world, with over seventy living descendants, children?grandchildren?great grandchildren?great-great grandchildren.