ABSTRACT
–Marie Garson, an African Caribbean social worker had introduced the author to Ruby. She is the only one of the original twenty-five participants whom the author spoke with exclusively in her home. This deprived the author of a contextualized sense of who she was. When Ruby turned 16, her birth mother gave her a bundle of letters from her Nigerian birth father, which she had been keeping. It was at this stage, that Ruby began to write to him. Ruby, her husband and their children had already made one trip to Nigeria to meet her father and her extended family. More often than not the twenty-five individuals the author worked with were married to, in a long-term relationship with and/or frequently also had children with White English men or women. Regarding métisse women in the project, the exceptions to this pattern included Bambi, whose husband is also métis, and Sarah whose son's father is métis.
