Dad, being a white academic and mom being a vivacious black Montrealer, found a lovely first name they both agreed on but then they also needed that throwaway name, the middle name.
So they gave her something entirely original: 3jane.
They filled in the government form with that very name: 3jane in the space where th middle name goes.
Now the Kweeb bureaucratic army long bore a reputation for batting down just about any borderline moniker one could come up with.
They famously shot down some names that don't sound all that unusual, with their most famous moment being to deny someone the right to name their kid Spatule (Spatula). The parents eventually got their way however.
But alas 3jane got the green light. It's official. 3jane she is, middle-name-wise anyway.
So this young Montreal child might very well be the only Canadian born with a digit initial.
And the beauty of it is that it is pronounced differently in every language, Troisjane, Threejane, Dreijane, Talatajane, Bajane, Sanjane (That's enough, shut 'er down...Chimples).
Up until the late 90s government officials tried to talk parents out of about 20 names of the 85,000 new annual babies born in the province. So Boum-Boum, Lion, Cowboy, Gazouille, Peepee and Kaka were not thumbed-up by the team of seven name police working for Quebec's Registrar of Civil Status
Some parents beat them in court, however. C'est-Un-Ange and a girl with the letter L earned their names through a court decision and are turning somewhere about 18-years-old about now.
And then PQ Minister Andre Boisclair overruled their decision to stop a family from calling their daughter Ivory. Stormy was another that was going to be blocked.
Finally in 1999 the naming police had their powers revoked by Bill 34, which amended Article 54.
Since then it's pretty much free range naming.