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Canada remembers Harris as a homesick student who loved to dance
Harris' mother uprooted her and her sister Maya from their California hometown of Oakland to take a job researching cancer at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks in Prince George's County, Maryland, U.S., August 15, 2024. / REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Kamala Harris spent her adolescence in Montreal often pining for her California hometown, but former Canadian classmates remember the American presidential candidate as an outgoing student with a big smile, who loved dancing.
It was in 1976 at the age of 12 that the vice president and Democratic candidate in this year's US presidential race discovered the harsh, cold winters of Canada's second largest city.
Her divorced mother uprooted her and her sister Maya from their California hometown of Oakland to take a job researching cancer at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital.
"The thought of moving away from sunny California in February, in the middle of the school year, to a French-speaking foreign city covered in twelve feet of snow was distressing, to say the least," Harris recounted in her 2019 memoir.
Kamala Harris’ high school yearbook from Westmount High School in Montréal in 1981. Kamala lived in Montréal for a few years while her mother taught at McGill University. pic.twitter.com/zk6JJd9dYr
— Morgan Cameron Ross (@Morgan_C_Ross) July 22, 2024
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