If you were widowed with five young children, of course you'd spend summers exploring the Inside Passage and the BC coast with them in a 25-foot boat. Bears, cougars, orcas, storms, reefs, rock slides, crazy woodsmen, and unreliable food and water—what better environment to raise a child? (And this ...
This is a remembrance from the 1950s (I think) about a woman bringing five children up alone: really alone -- in the winter, they lived in a house in the woods with the nearest neighbor at least a mile away, and had school at home. In the summer, they piloted a 25-foot boat among the bays and island...
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