Blanche Tickle

Blanche Tickle was a small fishing settlement on the South Shore of Newfoundland where Mary Sue O’Leary was brought up from age 7 by her cousin Albert. When Albert died he left his house to Mary.

Blanche Tickle was a cluster of small multi-colored houses picturesquely and somewhat randomly scattered around the small bay... patches of brown grass and bare rock seemed to predominate and there were only a few scattered trees to be seen in the village.^BTG18

Mary took Matt Caldwell with her to stay in Blanche Tickle their first winter together^BTG18 and returned to make it her permanent home after Matt died.^BTG26

"Much as I hate ta say it, this place is slowly dyin’. It’s a smaller place now than it was when I was a child, an’ the way the fishin’ has been it’s a poorer place, too."^BTG18

In the Glossary to Blanche Tickle Girl it is explained that:

Tickle: A Newfoundland term for a narrow strait.