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Biography & Autobiography Adventurers & Explorers

A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia

The Recollections of Susan Allison

by (author) Margaret A. Ormsby

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1991
Category
Adventurers & Explorers, Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Personal Memoirs
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774803922
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $29.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774843539
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774800396
    Publish Date
    Jan 1976
    List Price
    $31.95

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In 1860, at the age of fourteen, Susan Louisa Moir left England for British Columbia. After settling initially at Hope, she lived briefly in both Victoria and New Westminster, then B.C.’s two most important settlements. Returning to Hope, she helped her mother open the community’s first school, and in 1868 she married John Fall Allison, riding on her honeymoon over the Allison Trail into the unsettled Similkameen Valley. Her record of the voyage, of Victoria, New Westminster, and Hope as they were in the 1860s, and her memories of the isolated but fulfilling life she, her husband, and their fourteen children led in the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys provide a unique view of the pioneer mind and spirit.

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Contributor Notes

Margaret A. Ormsby is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was head of the History Department of the University of British Columbia from 1965 until 1974.