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Island girl : from orphan to military wife

Title

Island girl : from orphan to military wife / Jackie Muise.

Author

Muise, Jackie

Publication

Charlottetown : Acorn Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description

138 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"The life story of Mary Elizabeth LeBlanc in Jackie Muise's Island Girl is compelling and moving, not because she was highly unusual, but because she experienced, suffered, survived, and triumphed over challenges commonly faced by ordinary people during her era. She did so with inspiring fortitude and grace. Orphaned at an early age on PEI, she lives first with lightkeepers at Souris East Lighthouse, then with a St. Georges farming couple, Dolph and Jeannette Gallant, who become her beloved lifelong parents. With wartime, Mary is transplanted to Nova Scotia, where Dolph works in the Pictou shipyards building cargo ships, and where she marries Pictou native Fred Leblanc, who becomes a soldier. Afflicted and critically ill with tuberculosis, Mary dwells at length and gives birth in the Kentville sanitorium. Prevailing, she devotes herself to the roles, sometimes draining, often fulfilling, of a military wife and mother. During postings in Germany and New Brunswick, she copes with and finally confronts her husband's alcoholism, while nurturing children through their struggles and victories. When we arrive at the end of Mary's long life and story, we deeply admire and miss her as if she were our own cherished and extraordinary relative. We agree with the Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis that 'There are no ordinary people.'"--

Subject

Genre/Form

collective biographies.
Biographies.

Additional Formats (note)

Issued also in electronic format.

ISBN

9781773660769
1773660764

LCCN

2020448234

OCLC

on1245928564
SCSB-14688957

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library