Monique Leyrac (left) is congratulated by fellow winners of the Governor General's Performing Arts Award Nicholas Goldschmidt (centre), Gilles Carle during a news conference in Montreal in this Sept. 16, 1997 photo. There ’s a spark in Goldschmidt’s eyes when he talks about his latest project a youthfulness that ’s hard to reconcile with his patchy white hair and bushy eyebrows. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/Ryan Remiorz)