Hi there ... and welcome to Marc & Deanna's website ...                                                        Français

      We met on a warm and sunny afternoon, at the Stairway to Heaven.  We moved to Victoria in December 2007, and we live in a beautifully landscaped and quiet part of town called Broadmead, at the very top of Boulderwood Rise.  We are close to Elk Lake where we like to walk or jog, and to the Galloping Goose and the Lochside Trail where we go bike riding.

    We were married in the sand and sun of Bahia, Brazil (thank you, Véronique Sanson) in September 2009.

    A 1990 Certified General Accountant program graduate, Marc is now the CFO for an insurance brokerage firm.  Hendry, Swinton, McKenzie, owned by Brad Hendry & Ross McKenzie, is located downtown Victoria, with another office at Westshore.  Deanna has her own bookkeeping business and yes, we do talk about other things than balance sheets when we get home ;-) ...

    We enjoy hiking & bike riding together, playing softball or tennis (there is a court at the bottom of Boulderwood Rise), having dinner parties or hanging out with friends (Victoria's very friendly and active badminton community made us feel at home as soon as we moved here).  We also both love to travel to exotic places or to cozy country B&Bs, we like to water ski, share a good bottle of wine (do try to visit our favourite vineyards: Mistaken Identity and Eagle Eye for an experience you won't forget), to listen to music, read ... or even play "Wii" like a couple of (semi) grown-up kids J.  Now that Deanna has had her first taste of white water rafting (see pictures of her maiden trip on the Nahatlash), we will likely be going back for more. In his spare time, Marc also plays duplicate bridge and enjoys taking (and sharing) pictures.

    Deanna grew up in Ontario, and her family moved to BC in 1991.  Her Dad lives in Nanoose with her nephew, and her sister lives in Ontario.

    Marc immigrated to Canada in 1981, and his Dad and two brothers still live in Belgium.  His sister Geneviève lives in the south of France.  Marc also has two kids from a previous marriage.  Both Thia (born in '83) and Ryan ('86) live and work "up island" in Nanaimo.