Tales From The Queen Charlotte Islands Book 2 

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Softback 1982, good condition, pictures. This is the second book to be published by the Senior Citizens .of the Queen Charlotte Islands. As before we have gathered here bits and pieces of our latter day history, "most of it within the memory of our destresidents. You will not find here an account of the ancient Haida ways, of the early traders and explorers. Many writers have apabl~j.covere, the ground in detail and depth. But history is a procession without end. We tend to be careless about one more immediate past, thinking it must already be set:=down indelibly somewhere, but that is seldom so. For the most part what we have tried to do here is to preserve and record the life stories of some of our people vp~ho lived and worked on the Islands in the early years of hs'century. In our book w, resurrect a vintage portrait of life as it was, for the men and women who worked in an industry which is'now long gone, the two whaling stations. We look ~ack through three different pairs of eyes at what it was to be a logger in the early days, in the time of the big trees, also soon to be gone. We have a roster of yarns about other people whose varied lives and pursuits are worthy of a place in our history. Although we are said to be old and some would say doddering we are still keenly concerned with this new world around us. We bring to your attention some of the inspiring activities which are going on here today: a university of and in the wilds that is being carried on for t young; a close look with an observant eke at the little-travelled interior of our Islands; some nbggets of pictures and poetry by a gifted person. This is not a heavy and learned tome, it is a collection that we all took pleasure in digging up from many sources. We hope that you will have as much pleasure in the reading.