Fran Cutler’s family has an attachment to the Wakefield area that goes back almost one hundred years. Like many of us, Fran considers Wakefield one of her “favourite villages in the whole world!”. 

For the 30 years she worked at the CBC, the Gatineau Hills always provided a respite from the demands of work. Now retired, Fran enjoys the area in a very different way, specifically as she navigates thru an increasingly more challenging vision impairment. As her sight deteriorates, it’s the bird songs that that keep calling her out to the trails. 

“There’s the wonderful Canada bird – the white throated sparrow with a note that sounds like ‘…in Canada…’.”

In Canada indeed.