This book is my memoir. I was born at the Coast at the tail-end of the Great Depression, one year before the outbreak of World War 2. When the War ended in 1945 my family packed our household goods into 2 large trunks and travelled across Howe Sound by steamship to Squamish; from there, we boarded the old PGE train for the arduous 2-day journey to Exeter Station, near 100 Mile House. We caught a ride to a previously unseen isolated rural property at Forest Grove.I walked 2 miles to school (uphill both ways, true, there’s not a flat spot in the Cariboo!) married at 17 and worked as a cook at various sawmill/logging camps in the 100 Mile House area and Fraser Lake.

Fraser Lake has been the hometown of myself and my 4 children since 1972. In 1974 I began writing a humour column entitled Sense and Nonsense for newspapers in Vanderhoof, Prince George and Quesnel. I incorporated narrative poetry in many contributions which people seemed to enjoy. During those years the writing bug took hold, ending up in the publication of 4 books, several chapbooks of poetry etc. When the writing bug bites it’s vary hard to stop!