My mother used to liken herself to a Maramashee tiger protecting her young . Has anyone ever heard of one ?

Question

I have looked everywhere and can't find where there is or was a tiger by this name . Mother swears it's a real tiger .

Answer 1

nope, but tigers do protect their young.

Answer 2

There's a place referenced in a couple folk songs called Miramashee (see Donkey Riding and The Injun Man from Miramashee), and from what I gather it's in Newfoundland. I can't find any actual non-song information about it, so I assume that whatever it was has been renamed. I probably don't need to tell you this, but there aren't any tigers roaming around Canada. However, the 10,000-year-extinct American lion existed as far north as the Yukon, and it is considered today to be more closely related to the tiger than the lion. For what it's worth, it was the largest cat species to ever exist.

So yes, well, maybe she was comparing herself to a long-dead American pseudotiger from a temporarily named place on a Canadian island. That's as close to a valid answer as I can get, and I hope it's at least marginally useful.