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The name Shania (shu-Nye-uh) is an Ojibway name meaning "I'm on my way". She was born in Windsor, Ontario, to Sharon and Clarence Edwards. When she was only two years old her parents split. Sharon relocated her daughters to Timmins where she met and fell in love with Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa.
When she was 21 her mother and adoptive father were killed in a car crash in '87 so Shania was left to be both mother and father to her younger brothers and sisters. She got a full-time job performing everything from country to Las Vegas-style shows, nightly at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ont.
Shania recorded her first album, Shania Twain, in 1993. Her first hit "What Made You Say That" didn't take the country world by storm but get the attention of Sean Penn, who directed one of her videos. Through this first recording Shania met her producer Robert John (Mutt) Lange. They married in 1994 and started to make beautiful music together. So were born "The Woman in Me" (1995) and "Come On Over" (1997) albums.
Before Shania Twain's 31st birthday, the town of Timmins held a homecoming for her. They presented her with the first-ever key to the city and named the main street of Algonquin Boulevard to Shania Twain Way. She left her hand prints in cement and had also a garden named in her honor.
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