Elise Chartrand-Dery: My Childhood Initiation into Life in Edmonton

- 'Speak white,' reprimanded the store clerk.

- 'Qu'est-ce qu'elle a dit?" (What did she say?) I asked my mother.

My mother, visibly hurting but containing her emotions, guided me outside the Hudson's Bay Store onto Jasper Ave.

Chartrand-Dery, Elise