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FAGE I0 TERRACE BAY NEWS MARCH 5, 1975 PAST RESIDENT CHOSEN REPRESENTATIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR 1975 She's done it all and still smiles . By Peggy Foster A nurse and a hair- dresser, a cook and a plane fitter....... that's what Corrie Little has done in her life. Of course our choice of represen- tative for International Women's year has done a number of other things, but Mrs. John Little considers those to be her major occupations to date in her 55 years. In a recent interview with Mrs. Little at the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, where she is a cook for more than 20 people, she said the reason for her happiness is that "I enjoy life." "I've seen the best and the worst. but everytime my family got down, someone came to our rescue and made life happy for us again. I try to help people as much as I can, and I find it is always returned to me in some way," she said. Mrs. Little is the mother of three sons and a daughter, ranging in age from 34 to 18 years. At the age of 16 she was "trained to be a home nurse and travelled from her hometown in Port Arthur Ontario, to Brooklin © New York, where she nursed a lady until her death. "I was just a young girl and missed being home so I came back to Canada and trained to be. a hair- dresser. going to buy me a shop sq I could start up my own business, but my Mother fell ill and the money had to go to pay bills instead,' she remembered. During the war, she was a fitter in an air plane factory in Fort William and in 1940 she was married. "It was really different in those days because we worked for 84 cents an hour in the factory, and since I was the oldest child in our My Dad was. family of three children it was necessary for me to go out to work," Mrs. Little said. her Shortly after husband went overseas, during the war, Mrs. Little bore their first son, Jackson, and when Mr. Little returned home, the small family moved to Terrace Bay, Ontario. As a cook at the mill in Terrace Bay, she was responsible for the meals of 400 men each day, including breakfast, dinner, lunch and snacks. "I did the baking for the camp too," she says, and one can well believe it as she takes a huge pan of raisin buns out of the oven at House 6. Where did you learn to cook so well, she is asked and a grin.comes to her face. "I've always loved to make things and try new 'ideas. I guess you could say I like to create," she adds. "My mother was a good cook but when she became ill I had to do a lot of things for myself, so I learned to cook and sew. If you like to do something, you always do a better job," she believes. "The man who taught me my outlook on life, 'was a boss I had at Canada Catering in Terrace Bay, Joe Bailey. I used to say I couldn't do things very well, but he gave me confidence and woke me up to the fact that I could do things if I put my mind to them," Mrs. Little said. While in Terrace Bay, she even organized a hockey team for the young fellows who had nothing to occupy their time and would stand around the snack bar she ran at the local arena. "I got the team started, and stepped out of it shortly afterwards because the men in the area did not like the fact that a woman had started something they hadn't thought of themselves," she says with a wink. For the past two years she has been the cook of Houses 5 and 6 at the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital and "really enjoys working around the kids." Houses 5 and 6 are for adolescents who go to the hospital for a short period of time for intensive counselling. "Every person has something good in him and I try to find it and help the children if I can," Mrs. Little said. "They like to come in here and chat with me while I'm fixing the food because it seems more like home for them I think." Mrs. Little has worked steadily since 1961 when her husband became ill, "and I really like the work, the people here are good to work with and I wouldn't want to quit," she said. On February 1, the Littles celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary and on Valentines Day, Mrs. Little's mother will be 82 years old. Corrie is also the grandmother: of seven grandchildren, and | one on the way, she adds with a grin. Maybe it is the Welsh and Irish mixture in her blood, maybe it is the ever present elflike grin on her face, or maybe it is all the things she has had to overcome in her life, but something special keeps the little lady going. "I'm healthy she says and I hope to live to be 100." With' the luck of the Irish, "Corrie" will live to 101 and enjoy every minute of it. Corrie Little is the second in a series of ladies of the area chosen by the News Advertiser as representatives for International Women's Year 1975. The following article is taken from "The News Advertiser", Febru- ary 5,:1975 Ea