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Muriel Butts loved a bargain and Acadian rappie pie, but not necessarily in that order

The Globe and Mail
Mary Ann Colihan
Published February 9, 2021
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Muriel Bridgette Butts:
Grande dame. Army wife. Acadian. Thrifter. Born July 17, 1922, in Truro, N.S.; died Nov. 25, 2020, in London, Ont., from Parkinson’s disease; aged 98.
Muriel Burke grew up in Truro, N.S., the second-oldest of seven siblings. Times were tight but the Burke home was filled with music.
Muriel earned her teacher’s licence at the Truro Old Normal College and taught in Kentville. Here she met Blaise Butts – a handsome captain in the Royal Canadian Regiment. They fell in love and married when she turned 21. Muriel said if you were an army wife, you had to be prepared to move – she did about 15 times. The couple raised three boys – David, Crispin and Michael – as the family was posted in Camp Borden, Ottawa, London, England and, eventually, London, Ont. David remembers at least six of those moves. He believes it gave all of them, especially his mother, resilience.

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