Christine Eide emigrated from Holland to northern British Columbia when she twelve years old. At age fifteen she got an after-school job working in a Hudson’s Bay trading post. She began her teaching career in a one-room school, Upper Kispiox Rural School. Christine has taught a range of grade levels in various northern communities, and was a principal for 19 years before retirement. She has been a faculty associate in Simon Fraser University’s teacher education program and a practicum placement coordinator for the University of Northern British Columbia’s B.Ed. program.