Camp: North of 55

For more than 30 years, from 1930 to the early 1960s, nearly 300 men, women and children lived, worked, played, and built an isolated but vibrant, caring community at Island Falls, Saskatchewan, 75 roadless miles from the nearest civilization. In winter, only dog teams, and in summer, only canoes and portages reached or left Island Falls. For six weeks at spring break-up, and another six weeks at fall freeze-up, the isolateion was total. Read of the frantic race to save a three-year-old from slow asphyxiation during one fall freeze-up; a lineman's comical buck-naked escape from a bear; and the spectacular explosion of an entire winter's supply of gasoline and oil. These and many more memories and true tales are recorded here for others to share. Whether you know if Island Falls or not, you will marvel at the people who created and lived at CampNorth of 55. Readers will thrill to the marvelous story of a marriage of people with a time and a place that was nearly idyllic, is now no more, and never can--or will--exist again. Fully indexed; more than 90 photographs.