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The album cover of Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More was thought to be a heart-tugging snapshot of an American couple, but Jessie Kerr from Comox, B.C., says she knows that’s false because the woman in the photo 50 years ago is actually her.

“These people have built a whole myth around this for themselves,” Kerr says. “I feel badly for them … you can tell it’s not them.”

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In August 1969, Kerr was a 20-year-old student at UBC when she decided to hitchhike with a French-Canadian friend, Luise, who was en route back to Quebec after staying with Kerr.

She didn’t want Luise to go alone and also wanted to see more of the country.

“We stuck our fingers out, I think, just at Boundary Road before you entered the highway,” she says. “If you lived on the west coast and went to Montreal, you felt like you were in Europe.”

An American guy, who was hungry to see more of Canada, gave them a ride and the trio travelled through Banff and camped there before reaching Quebec three or four days later.