This reissue of an out-of-print treasure of Canadian literature is one of the best accounts we have of a west coast community. Port Simpson is located just south of the Nass River, an area largely inhabited by the Nisga'a people. In the 1920s, Helen Meilleur attended a one-room school on the Native reserve here, where her father ran the general store. Meilleur combines town history; Indian attacks, gold-seekers, missionaries, visiting royalty, with her personal stories of an exciting childhood in this remote community, including her acquaintances with the Native people and travelling to school by steamship.
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Helen Meilleur was born in Port Simpson, BC in 1910. She had careers in teaching and business and was a wife and mother of five. She didn't start writing until 1967 when she won an Indiana University scholarship for non-fiction. She was 70 years old when the book conceived in her childhood was finally written and published.
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THE CENTURY WAS in its seventh year and already racing headlong into change when my mother rolled over the gunnel of a Tlingit dugout onto the beach that fronted the Hudson's Bay post at Port Simpson. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oolichan fishery, wharf approach, oolichan grease, fort people, seal noses, fort life, journal keeper, trade shop, land party, wood yard, elk skins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Simpson, Hudson's Bay, Port Simpson, Prince Rupert, Big House, Captain Dickson, British Columbia, Fort Vancouver, Nass River, Queen Charlotte Islands, New Year, Skeena River, Susan Sturgis, Hamilton Moffatt, William Duncan, Fort Victoria, Russian American Company, Vancouver Island, Captain Simpson, Dundas Island, Finlayson Island, Snake River, Columbia District, James Douglas, Union Steamship Company New!
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THE CENTURY WAS in its seventh year and already racing headlong into change when my mother rolled over the gunnel of a Tlingit dugout onto the beach that fronted the Hudson's Bay post at Port Simpson. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oolichan fishery, wharf approach, oolichan grease, fort people, seal noses, fort life, journal keeper, trade shop, land party, wood yard, elk skins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Simpson, Hudson's Bay, Port Simpson, Prince Rupert, Big House, Captain Dickson, British Columbia, Fort Vancouver, Nass River, Queen Charlotte Islands, New Year, Skeena River, Susan Sturgis, Hamilton Moffatt, William Duncan, Fort Victoria, Russian American Company, Vancouver Island, Captain Simpson, Dundas Island, Finlayson Island, Snake River, Columbia District, James Douglas, Union Steamship Company New!
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- The First World War (Teach Yourself History) by David Evans in Front Matter
- Strong Medicine by Robert E Mckechnie in Back Matter
- Woodsmen of the West (New Canadian Library) by Martin Allerdale Grainger in Front Matter
- The First World War by Michael Howard in Front Matter
- Henry Drummond by James Y. Simpson in Back Matter
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