Capital Voices: She was a drum majorette and she swung her steel baton with authority
(WorldNews Canada)

To mark Canada´s sesquicentennial, the Citizen´s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. The series, which was published daily leading up to Canada Day, was called Capital Voices. It continues on a somewhat less rigorously defined schedule. `I was the first drum majorette for the Ottawa Rough Riders, and the only one they ever had. I was four years a drum majorette, from 1946 to 1949, but when I got married my husband said `You don´t need that anymore.´ `There was an ad in the newspaper that they were looking for someone to...