To my father, James Arthur Soden M.C., Q.C., for giving me a passion for law
and justice;

To my mother, the late Edna Amy McConkey R.N., for being an inspiration
in caring;

To my grandmother, the late Violet Ida McNamara Soden, for her love of life; and

To the late Anna De Vlaming of the Netherlands, my former colleague in Operation Contact, Montreal, a community development and homecare program for seniors, whose generous bequest contributed to the inauguration of this website.