Ruffles on My Longjohns

Isabel Edwards

Hancock House, 1980 - Biography & Autobiography - 297 pages

Biographical account of pioneer life in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia, near Lonesome Lake in the 1930s and 1940s, including trapping and fishing.

Contents

• Packing in Freight 6 Building the Stillwater Boat: 6
• Making Packsaddles: 7
• Old Young Place: 8

About the author

Isabel Edwards was in her early twenties when she and her husband Earle began homesteading in British Columbia's remote Bella Coola Valley. Born in Britain and raised in quiet Victoria, young Isabel had only notions of wilderness life when she and Earle left their home and edged closed and closed to the wilderness. What was to be one winter spent in the northern coastal mountains has become almost fifty years. Mrs. Edwards has a natural talent for spinning yarns about those early days - the former British aristocrats, the eccentric bachelors and the Indians who populated the Valley; packing in the yearly supply of food over remote horse trails; fighting floods; preparing for their first Christmas; and, of course, the isolation and loneliness of being the only woman in a world of men. Mrs. Edwards treats her past with a tender humor.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ruffles on My Longjohns; Opis Series
• Author: Isabel Edwards
• Publisher: Hancock House, 1980
• Original from: the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized: Dec 3, 2009
• ISBN: 0888390696, 9780888390691
• Length: 297 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers; Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Women; History / Canada / General