But as much as they
love their busy urban lifestyle, the Omerettis would like to sell their
home in Hamilton, Ont., and move
permanently to their cottage near Renfrew, Ont.
As an adult, Tanner became increasingly convinced that racism
in the United States would prevent his work from gaining the recognition it deserved, and
in 1894, just two years after Homer Plessy's arrest for sitting
in a «whites only» train compartment
in Louisiana, Tanner left the
home he
loved for Paris, settling there more or less
permanently.