The girl healer, real name Marie Ann Gravelle, lived her entire 19 years of life in the town of Cyrville, and her story seems to be quite fantastical. She claimed to be able to cause miraculous cures to many ailments, including be able to cure the deaf and the blind, and even to be able to make crippled people walk. She had fallen ill multiple years before she perished, and the article notes under the attached picture that it was only shortly before she died that she could do these miracle cures. Marie was deeply religious, going by the fact that her room was supposedly covered in religious pictures, effigies, and medals, most of which would be given away by Marie herself in the days before she died. The article also notes various testimonies, from both men and women, who claimed first to be afflicted by some serious ailment like paralysis or deafness, and then claimed that Marie was able to cure them to great effect. It is not entirely clear just what it was Marie did to these people when she ministered to them, as the article does not even bother explaining that, but apparently it was beyond what doctors of the time could manage for the ones she cured. As for how Marie understood her curative powers, she seems to have believed they were tied to her body in some capacity, since she asked that her family help those who sought healing in the presence of her body after she died. Her funeral appears to have taken place on March 27th of 1934 (or 1935, the year is not quite clear). Relating this story to the core themes of the course, we would suggest that this story falls firmly under women’s history as this strange, fantastical event where a dying woman was given the power to cure all sorts of ailments (except her own, because that would be too easy), and whose loss was greatly mourned by her community. We would suggest that this story falls under archival practices, since that it was preserved at all suggests that there was a belief in these sorts of stories when they came up in the news. That and the religious aspect of this story cannot be ignored, since Marie literally had her walls covered in religious artifacts, and this might have played a role in reaffirming the religious beliefs of those who read the story as God having given somebody the power to heal. One can only guess what this indicates about the scrapbooker who decided this story was worth preserving, but if nothing else this makes for an interesting moment in Canadian history.