Was this Ste Agathe or Ste Adele, Quebec? The year is likely to be 1954 ... spring. Oma is keeping a firm hold on the cat (name forgotten), Margaret has her doll Bärbel. Gundel and Else are wearing handknits, in variously fine wools - indeed, everyone is, except the cat.

Family gathering during Else and Ernst's visit, 1979 - Gundel, Susan, Martin, paul, Kate, Sue, Alfred, Nettie, John, Ruth, (front) Nick, Else, Oma, Norah.

Oma with Else and Anni, about 1919 perhaps?

Oma's 91st birthday.

Else and Anni, with Else's husband and others, including their cousin Paula.
Fortunately Gundel added the names on the back.

Else and Paul about 1938, in the little garden across the road from Oma's home and grocery shop.

Oma's family at home, around Christmas-time in the early 1940s - Anni, Oma, Paul, Else.

Oma and her children, early 1945 - Else, Paul, Oma (Greta), Alfred, Anni.

One version of the origins of this photo is that Paul got a week's leave (from the army) because his brother, reported missing after his brigade was captured, had returned home, having made his way back to Gersfeld from Poland after being captured on the Russian frontier. The journey home was quite a story, and Alfred spoke of it only in recent years. When she got the telegram saying "your son is missing in action", Oma emphatically said she knew he was on his way back - and some weeks later he came through the door.