Chris and Bridget

Chris Morrissey and Bridget Coll were partners for 40 years. Together they worked with others to change Canada’s immigration legislation to recognize same-sex relationships as family. Their family expanded when they were adopted as grammas, a role they loved. This image shows their names on a photo of irises created by Judy Fletcher. Judy says, “Purple was Chris’s favourite colour.” Judy used this image to create T-shirts in their honour.

These Chris and Bridget dolls were handmade by two women enabled to make safer new lives in Canada through Rainbow Refugee Society, which Chris and Bridget co-founded. Photo by Cyndia Cole
Chris and Bridget met in Chile when they were both nuns and working with women who bravely resisted the Pinochet dictatorship. Their cremains are interred together at Mountainview Cemetery. Photo by Cyndia Cole