The faces we've lost: Barbara Holder was a strong woman, but the odds were stacked against her
Article content Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa. Barbara Holder was born Barbara Ryan in 1936 in Montague, a small town on Prince Edward Island. We apologi...