http://www.deerhurstresort.com/shania.html      This link should take you to a special Deerhurst page set up for Shania and when she performed there. It is called the Shania Connection Page. It has pics of her when she performed there and the one of her and Katie and one of her and Anne Larcade who works at Deerhurst and greeted Shania there in November of 2002.

	Here you will see the book that I am currently reading on Eilleen "Shania" Twain-Lange. Eva Marie Clarke did a wonderful job on writing this book about Shania and there is another book out on Shania that has been written by Robin Eggars. He has an updated version of it coming out this October which I intend to buy and read. These two books Robin Eggars and Eva Marie Clarke's both have very much the same facts in them so I am more willing to believe the facts in these two books than any other books. Shania is a wonderful, sweet,caring and loving person. This wonderful lady I know has grown into the wonderful person that her parents were shaping when she was little and they may not be here with her but I know they are looking down on there sweet angel that they had too leave behind with so much pride in knowing that she has turned out to be one of the most loving people out there.

	Clarence Edwards was the eighth child to Harold and Regina Edwards in Chapleau,Ontario,Canada. He was a big, handsome Irish-Canadian man and a good athlete. He also had a wonderful singing voice. After he graduated high school he enlisted in the army. However he was often in conflict with his senior officers and eventually went AWOL, for which he served six months in a military prison and was given a discharge. He travelled around Northern, Ontario working odd jobs before he met Sharon Morrison(Shania's mom) at a bar in Sudbury,Ontario. Sharon Morrison was the only child of Eileen and George Morrison. She had a happy childhood and spent time working in the garden with her mother in Timmins. The family was comfortable and music was an important ingredient of there everyday life. Sharon was a headstrong child, slender and blonde, she was also prone to fits of depression as she got older. Her friends remember her best as being happy-go-lucky. At the age of 17 she was 5'7" and slender with golden-auburn hair. She got engaged to a young French-Canadian man,Gilles, who died shortly before the wedding, leaving Sharon pregnant with her first daughter Jill. She met Clarence in the fall of 1964. At that time she was struggling to make ends meet. Clarence was a tall handsome man who enjoyed partying, his physical presence made Sharon feel secure and safe. The families and friends said they were very opposite each other but were strongly drawn to each other. They spent a few days at the home of Gordon. Gordon in those few days tried to talk his brother Clarence out of marrying Sharon stating that he thought that she was all wrong for him and that she would drive him nuts in the first year, however Clarence did not listen to his brother. Clarence and Sharon were an attractive couple although they fought continuously. Sharon was a chain smoker who was also taking medication for Obssessive-Compulsive Disorder. They could not afford a good therapist and she was put on tranquilizers, but the pills did not help instead they argued much of the time. They moved to Windsor where Clarence took a job with Chrysler for better pay then he was making in the mines of Northern Ontario. Sharon was also pregnant with Eileen(Shania) at the time and gave birth to her second daughter "Eileen Regina Edwards" on August 28, 1965. Eileen(Shania) is a true product of the Canadian immigrant experience. Her roots show that wild mixture so typically Canadian: Irish,Swedish,Scottish,Native and a trace of Spanish. Her roots also suggest an explosive mixture full of strength----strength that nobody realized baby Eileen would need to pull herself from a harsh world into one of blazing fame. Eileen's parents relationship continued to detiorate becoming more and more tense following moves to Toronto and finally Timmins where Clarence worked in a mine in the area. Clarence went out to buy a loaf of bread and cigarettes and he never returned. Six months later word made it back to her that Clarence was back in Toronto working in the CN Rail Yards. Sharon moved herself and her three daughters----Jill,Eileen and Carrie-Anne back to her mothers house near Timmins. She cut Clarence out of there lives completely telling her daughters that they didn't need him. Sharon took jobs as a cleaner and as a worker in hotel kitchens. Unlike many of her neighbors she held no prejudice against Native people and struck a friendship up with a girl from the nearby Mattagami reservation---Audrey Twain. Being A typical sister Audrey played matchmaker  when she set up her good looking friend with her little brother Jerry. When Sharon met Jerry it was at his parents home. Jerry Twain was quiet,unassuming and reassuring--solid. The Twain family is Ojibway and had lived in the Timmins/Mattagami region for generations. Jerrys parents, Gerry and Selina, had raised there children with pride. Jerry's father preferred living off the land in the bush around Timmins, he refused to rely on handouts from the government. He staked mining claims in Northern Ontario, one of those areas was Kid Creek mine, which still produces Zinc and Silver. Jerry's sister Karen says, "My dad wanted the family to do well. He liked the Bush but wouldn't sit in the reservation taking welfare, we were taught to try and make it on our own." As his father, Jerry's pride never allowed him to turn to the government for help, even when finances were desperately low. Raised in town, Jerry's education was constantly interrupted by family moves. He never graduated from Timmins High School, even though he was a good student. He also did not graduate from Vocational School. He took accounting classes at night  while marking logs for the department of Natural Resources during the day. Jerry preferred to sit quietly in a crowd observing. He loved to tease, gently and his sister Karen says he made Sharon laugh. She said the couple were inseperable. Jerry was a man of the land, he enjoyed hunting for both survival and enjoyment.