Barbara Landry: Hello, my name is Barbara Landry. My mother told me that when she was growing up, Barbara was her favorite name. So that is how I got my first name. My closest friends call me Barbie. My last name, Landry, is French-Canadian. In French, it is pronounced lawn-dree. My early ancestors came to Canada from France back in the 1600s and populated Quebec and the Maritime regions of Canada. Today, there are many people with the last name Landry living in Canada.