Irish: Margaret Dyck and Kinship Boyden

irish: When he described himself, I felt an immediate kinship, according to Hamilton Spectator. Boyden was raised in Toronto and he described his background as mostly Celtic his dad, Raymond, a Second World War hero, was Irish and his mom, Blanche, Scottish and Anishinaabe. Boyden spoke for nearly an hour, played the harmonica and held the crowd captive as he spoke of his battle with depression and attempted suicide when he was a teen. While I'm not Irish, I was raised outside of Toronto, my father was Polish Canadian, and my maternal grandmother, Margaret Dyck, is indigenous. She never lived on the reserve but in the bush, in Graham and Raith, places so small you would be pressed to find them on a map. She carries an Indian status card and her community is Fort William First Nation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.