Though they had known each other in their native Jamaica, Byron and Violet Carter of Pickering, Ontario, immigrated to Canada separately, he via the United States to study mechanical engineering, and Violet to work as a nurse and further her education while working at the Toronto Western Hospital. Violet was already a graduate of the Public Health School in Kingston, Jamaica, with a Royal Society of Health Certificate from the U.K., when she came to Toronto, 1961, and later served with the Victorian Order of Nurses, Toronto, 1963-65, before moving to the Scarborough General Hospital, 1965-1992, where she spent her time in the gynaecology and later the nursery wards. Byron, who graduated from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, moved to Toronto and married Violet, 1961. For the next 19 years he worked at Canadian General Electric, Toronto, then briefly managed Don Park Sheet metal Company before opening his own home renovation business, B.C. Renovations in Pickering, Ontario. He retired in 1992. Active in the Jamaican community, Violet was a founding member of the Jamaican Canadian Association, 1962, and has served on a number of committees, while Byron has served as Treasurer and Vice President of the group that has some 2,000 members. He was also president of the now defunct Credit Union of the Jamaican Canadian Association. They are the proud parents of four children, two boys, one an architect and the other an engineer, and two girls, a lawyer and a rehabilitation counsellor. [Photo, courtesy Byron Carter]