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Constance "Connie" Jollimore Slaunwhite

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Constance "Connie" Jollimore Slaunwhite was born in 1929. Her parents are Stella Slaunwhite and Stanley Jollimore. Connie had five sisters and four brothers. She started going to school at the Crossroads in Terence Bay at about age eight or nine. She had to go across the ice to get there in winter, and use a boat in other seasons. Her father raised cows, oxen, horses, chickens and pigs. She remembers always having something good to eat while growing up, either meat they raised or vegetables grown in their garden.

They grew grass for animal feed. She recalls that her father would mow it when it was high enough and the youngsters would have to spread it all around in the morning and turn it all over at noon.

When she went to school her teachers were Marian Graham and Sister Veronica Marie. A fond memory for Connie is when her father bought her a pretty green coat when she was ten or eleven years old. Most of the time her mother made the clothes for the family.

She had a big wedding in the month of October 1944 to Edmond Slaunwhite of Terence Bay, son of Dennis and Mathilda Slaunwhite. Edmond fished for most of his life and then got into carpentry. He also built boats. Edmond is nine years older than Connie and they had nine children. She recalls that everybody was poor. Bread was only five cents a loaf but getting five cents was not easy. Connie enjoyed sitting and talking to friends at Carl's canteen before television came in.

At the age of forty-five, Connie got her driver's license and went to work in Halifax at the Sear's cafeteria, where she was employed for seventeen years. She remembers people fishing in their boats, which could be dories, sailboats, or schooners, setting traps and using nets. Some would go as far as Sambro Banks forty miles away to fish. Her husband Edmond did so and she recalls how they were caught in a big storm one time and were forced to stay in Halifax until it passed. Edmond's brothers Frank and Basil went out in the boat one time but they never came back.

Remembering the old days, she says "life wasn't easy.....when you think on the life you did have and what you went through.....you believe change was all for the better......"

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