Marion Counsel

Marion Counsel grew up on Red Island, Placentia Bay. She was a teenager when her family resettled in the town of Placentia during the "Resettlement Program" of the 1960's. Marion has written many recitations, stories and songs about these experiences, mainly as a keepsake for her son Michael, but also, to help preserve her memories of out port life in Newfoundland and Labrador. She has compiled her work and created "Red Island - Resettlement Girl" and has performed it in many venues on the Avalon Peninsula.