Biography & Autobiography Adventurers & Explorers
A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia
The Recollections of Susan Allison
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- Adventurers & Explorers, Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Personal Memoirs
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774803922
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774843539
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774800396
- Publish Date
- Jan 1976
- List Price
- $31.95
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Description
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.
About the author
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.