Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits: A History of the Sunshine Coast

Can$18.95

"For the people who live on the Sunshine Coast, and for the people who are thinking about coming here, this book is invaluable."
-Going Coastal Magazine

For well over a century, the bright seas of the Sunshine Coast have been attracting visitors to the waterfront resorts, fishing lodges and beaches that rest between Howe Sound and the spectacular Princess Louisa Inlet. But these coastal hotspots and communities were settled by a few courageous and daring pioneers whose names are still familiar today: Gibsons, Roberts, Whitaker, Donley, Silvey, Griffiths.

Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits tells the stories of the homesteaders, loggers, prospectors and fishermen who carved out a living on the treacherous mountainside that rises straight out of the inlets. These men and women came with nothing in their pockets and founded logging empires, shingle mills and sawmills, launched fish canneries, a glue factory and even a well-known jam factory, and scaled the mountainsides to start copper and gold mines. They travelled and traded by boat, long before coastal roads were built in the 1950s, and their pioneering spirits still ride the bright seas of the Sunshine Coast today.

Betty Keller has lived in Vancouver, BC's Fraser Valley, the Okanagan and Kootenay areas, as well as in Nigeria. She has taught at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia and was a founding member of the SunCoast Writers Forge, The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts and the Sunshine Coast Writers-in- Residence Program. Author of several books of non-fiction and fiction, Betty has been the recipient of a number of awards, including The Lescarbot Award (1991), the Talewind Books Award (1996) and The Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal (2002). Please visit www.quintessentialwriters.com.

Rosella Leslie was born in Alberta and began writing when she moved to a small floathouse on an inlet 25 miles north of Sechelt, BC. Her feature articles and short fiction have appeared in local and national magazines and she is the author of several books. A founding member of the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts and the SunCoast Writers Forge, she continues to be involved with community leadership. In 2002, she was awarded the BC Confederation of Parent Advistory Councils' George Matthews Award for Excellence in Parent Leadership. Please visit www.quintessentialwriters.com.


 

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