I am grateful for my health, my family, and my supportive community. Sending good wishes of hope and strength to all Canadians this autumn!

I am grateful to call this country home and for my family and friends. I hope that everyone can stay safe and healthy as enter the winter months!

I am so grateful for our beautiful seasons - from the colourful leaves of fall and the darling buds of spring to the thick snows of winter and sweltering summer evenings. Let’s work together this winter to prevent a significant second wave!

I hope that we may soon gather again in person, free of masks and wildfire smoke. I hope that we may together develop innovative solutions to address the many challenges we face, through perseverance, optimism, and inclusivity.

The most important lesson I've learned over the past six months is that humanity has been through heavy turmoil like this, before. Average people like us learned how to survive and keep going. They carried each other and themselves, developed new strategies and slowly transformed the world for better. Shadows were always uncovered, and the next generation always took the lead to fix it.

This little girl from Cape Breton is now almost 70 years old.Life in the 50,s was in some ways idealistic; in other ways,very difficult.I,ve survived many traumas,most of them emotional.I was luck enough to meet and marry a very good man and we raised two respectful and kind sons.I have finally discovered my true self and now am very at peace.I have so much to be grateful for,not the least of which is being born in this beautiful country.Love you Canada,lets not ever loose our reputation as kind and generous people.💖🇨🇦

During this challenging time my husband and I celebrated our 55 anniversary and my 75th birthday with our children their spouses and 3 grand children. I set up our shed to be an art studio for myself and 2 1/2 yr old grand daughter Daisy. I tried pencil crayon art but ended up doing watercolors with embellished embroidery! Also spent many a happy time teaching my seventeen yr old grand daughter to embroider. All in all we feel safe here in Canada and we are trying to find laughter whenever we can!! Stay healthy all my fellow Canadians! Betty (London Ontario)

It is hard staying distant from family and friends. We were lucky my husband is retired so we had an income. Others are not so blessed. We planted a little extra in our garden and donated to the local food bank, plus neighbors who didn’t have a garden. We got a new dog to fill the void of social distancing and learned how to virtual Zoom meetings to stay in contact. Hopefully people will stay safe and we will get through this. Scary that we have crazy theories that have people treating Covid as a sham, so cases are spiking again and until there is a vaccine we isolate and stay safe. Waiting for the end of this chapter, similar to what our grandparents did a hundred years ago.