Wherever I travel, I like to look in the phone directory and see how many LeClaire names there are. Depending on the size of the city, the search generally yields one or two or maybe a handful of LeClaire names with the ‘e’ on the end and maybe a few more without the ending ‘e.’

In Montreal, however, it was a different story. There were many LeClair listings and quite a few LeClaire listings as well. My French Canadian roots are alive and well.