Wandering the (Canadian) Rainbow, Part Two

In addition to the book event, my Montreal sojourn was marked by another bit of rainbow-related news.

I came to Montreal with marriage on the brain: my youngest sister down in Southern California had gotten hitched recently – the last of my three siblings to tie the knot. At a barbecue hosted in one of my other sisters' sprawling backyard, I learned this wasn't the only marriage to be celebrated – and in this case officialized – retroactively.

My mother's business partner, a realtor in...