Marion Pauline Slaunwhite

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Marion Pauline Slaunwhite was born in 1926 in Terence Bay. Her parents were Corella, called Quilla, and Isaiah and they had sixteen children. Fishing supported the family but they also had oxen, pigs, chickens, and cows and a big garden of carrots, turnips, and potatoes, which were stored in a root cellar for winter. Marion, the youngest child in the family, married Charles Leslie Slaunwhite, a man she grew up with in the village. He was seven years older than she was.

They had four children and shared a love of the woods. Marion also loved deer and rabbit hunting with her husband. She's a "good shot", too, with her shotgun. She fondly recalls all the dances in Terence Bay and the dance halls, saying, "We had a barrel of fun." There was a band with a violin and banjo that played nights until 1 a.m. She also went to dances in Sambro.

Recalling school days, Marion says," You couldn't walk to school with the ice on the road, half frozen and half not. Sometimes we had to take a ladder to get off the shore to get over and walk down. There were no buses, we had to go over and walk down leaving 8 o'clock in the morning..." She went to the Crossroads School. She remembers teachers Florence Myit, Miriam Gram and Mrs. Scott.

Marion found many changes coming to the village after the roads got paved, mainly the increase in traffic and new people moving into the village and building houses.