It was in 1967 that her husband received an offer to study a doctorate in Mathematics at McGill University. Upon accepting the offer, the young couple promptly moved their family to Montreal, Quebec.

Though Sheila took motherhood as her primary duty, she joined with other parents in the community of Lasalle, Quebec and together they formed a French and English bilingual cooperative nursery school.

At the nursery school parents took an active voluntary role helping to care for and educate preschoolers in the days before Quebec's modern daycare system. Even when staying home to raise her children, Sheila somehow found a way to satisfy her love of teaching.

In late 1969, while still living in Montreal, Sheila was delighted to give birth to her first and only daughter — Anne Sharon.

After Sheila's husband, Bob, completed his exams the family moved back to Winnipeg. There, in 1971, Sheila gave birth to her fourth and last child, a bouncing baby boy named Steven Andrew.