In Canada, Pi shows the narrator a book of family memorabilia, starting with photographs from Pi’s Hindu wedding and honeymoon at Niagara Falls. They page backward through Pi’s life to photos from Pi’s student years at the University of Toronto, including friends, campus scenes, Diwali on Gerrard Street, a church reading at St. Basil’s, zoology lab work, and graduation; Pi smiles in each, but his eyes seem troubled.

The album includes pictures from Brazil featuring three-toed sloths. When the pages reach the time “over the Pacific,” Pi explains that although many photos were taken, everything was lost, and only a small set was later gathered by Mamaji and mailed to him.

Among the surviving childhood images is a black-and-white zoo group photo with a Union cabinet minister and a giraffe in the background; the narrator recognizes a younger Mr. Adirubasamy and confirms he is Mamaji. The narrator points to a man who resembles Pi’s father, but Pi says he does not know who the man is and then adds that Pi’s father took the picture.

Pi points out another group shot of schoolchildren and identifies a tiger in it as Richard Parker, astonishing the narrator, though the image is out of focus and the animal looks away, unaware of the camera. The remaining pages show the swimming pool at the Aurobindo Ashram and the gate of Petit Séminaire school with the motto Nil magnum nisi bonum.

Seeing how little remains of his early life, Pi becomes sombre and admits he can barely remember his mother’s face and voice anymore; when he tries to focus on the memory, it fades. Pi concludes that it is deeply sad not to remember what one’s mother looked like, and he closes the book.