It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our Matriarch, Nancy Patricia (Dick) Blanchard on January 1, 2021 at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, with her family by her side.
Nancy was born on November 8, 1946, in Fort William, Ontario to William and Louise Dick. She was raised first in Macdiarmid, Ontario where her father, a WWII self-enlisted military veteran, was involved in the commercial fisheries. For a short time of Nancy s childhood, she was raised in St. Joseph Residential School which she remembers mostly with fond memories. At age 6 the family moved to Port Coldwell, Ontario where her father dutifully worked fisheries, highways, and then railroad. Her mother, Louise was a fiery free-spirited woman who possessed an artful hand, and powerful intuition. Nancy was educated in the village school of Port Coldwell. Nancy describes these times as a storybook setting where she formed many cherished lifelong friendships. Born into a very fast-growing fam