Born in a remote homestead at Lonesome Lake in southwest British Columbia, Trudy Turner was raised in true pioneer fashion, without running water, electricity or cars. (Trudy learned to fly a plane in her twenties, but didn't get her motor vehicle driver's license until she was in her sixties.) Her parents began their homestead in 1912 and her family spent most of the twentieth century in that area working their small farms and living independent lives in harmony with nature and the animals that inhabit the region. In 1939, as a young girl of 10, Trudy's father gave her the job of feeding the near-extinct trumpeter swans that wintered in the region. He had begun the feeding program in 1933 and Trudy kept it up until 1989. When she was 24, Trudy started her own homestead, building a home with the most basic hand tools. Now in her eighties, Trudy reflects on her unusual life and eloquently describes her experiences growing up in a world that others may view as isolated and

Packtrains and Airplanes: Memories of Lonesome Lake

Biographies & Memoirs

Turner, Trudy

Community & Culture

Hancock House Publishers Ltd.

Have you ever gazed quickly at a totem pole? Wondered what it was saying? Contemplated what its crests meant? Or wondered how it fit into those structures of a village? Those Born at Koona draws together a complete a story as will ever be told about these monuments of cedar.

Those Born At Koona

Smyly, John

Smyly, Carolyn

Often called The Crusoe of Lonesome Lake, because of a best-selling book written by the American journalist Leland Stowe, Edwards has gone on to live at least one more life and reveals himself to be a pioneer of a breed that no longer exists. Best known for his almost single-handed rescue of the trumpeter swans from extinction in North America, Edwards now related in his own words other aspects of his long, varied life, including experience with his missionary parents in India, as a telegraph operator under fire in World War I and his eventual return to Lonesome Lake.

Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake

Ed Gould

Travelers & Explorers

pp. 169, b/w photographs and sketch illustrations, music transcription and notation by Shirley A. Cox. Contents vg in orange illustrated boards.

Songs of the Pacific Northwest

Arts & Photography

Thomas, Philip J.

Music

Hardcover; 7 1/2 inch x 9 1/2 inch

We-Gyet Wanders On, Legends of the Northwest

Politics & Social Sciences

Kitanmax School of NW Coast Indian Art and James-Christen Assoc

Social Sciences

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