Wyler, Jennifer

Jennifer Wyler was born in a small town in Prince Edward Island. She married while still a teenager and became a traditional military housewife and mother of four. She began to question her role as a woman in her culture during the 1960s. In 1971, she returned to school in order to attain the required number of credits to pursue a life of nursing. Nursing school was a shattering experience that stripped her of her pretences, removed her ladylike image, and forced her out of the role she had learned to play. After months of pain, she found a spiritual group that held classes in a hotel in Ottaw...