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Her husband died in 1927, leaving M. Wylie Blanchet alone with five small children. Acting as both mother and captain of the twenty-five-foot boat that became her family’s home during summers on the coast of Vancouver Island, Blanchet has wonderfully documented their adventures.
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I made a comment about this book yesterday and was thinking of another book about Vancouver Island that I had read about the same time a year ago. Although this is a great book it not the one about a single mother with her five children spending summers on the coast of Vancouver Island. That one is "The Curve of Time" A GREAT read.
This book is also a great book about Billy Proctor growing up on Vancouver Island and its logging and fishing history.
I apologise for the mistake and hope all will enjoy both of these books as much as I did.
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The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest by M. Wylie Blanchet
wdchilders, November 10, 2008
Her husband died in 1927, leaving M. Wylie Blanchet alone with five small children. Acting as both mother and captain of the twenty-five-foot boat that became her family’s home during summers on the coast of Vancouver Island, Blanchet has wonderfully documented their adventures.(7 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)
Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story by Billy Proctor
wdchilders, November 10, 2008
I made a comment about this book yesterday and was thinking of another book about Vancouver Island that I had read about the same time a year ago. Although this is a great book it not the one about a single mother with her five children spending summers on the coast of Vancouver Island. That one is "The Curve of Time" A GREAT read.This book is also a great book about Billy Proctor growing up on Vancouver Island and its logging and fishing history.
I apologise for the mistake and hope all will enjoy both of these books as much as I did.
(2 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)
Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story by Billy Proctor
wdchilders, November 9, 2008
This was a very well written and inspirational account of a single mothers summers spent up and down the coast of Vancouver Island with her children.(0 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
Cruising the Secret Coast by Jennifer Hamilton
wdchilders, November 9, 2008
I am not sure that this is the book that I am interested in.......would like a better description or maybe a photo. And is it hard cover or paperback?(0 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)