These aren't the women who built the west.Not nurses or teachers or crusaders for women'srights, they rarely show up in history books.They are a different breed of women.Adventurous and rebell
These aren't the women who built the west.
Not nurses or teachers or crusaders for women's
rights, they rarely show up in history books.
They are a different breed of women.
Adventurous and rebellious, they strayed outside
the permitted and undertook the unexpected.
Most of the women who came to the west coast of Canada between the time of the gold rush and the 1940s settled in Vancouver or Victoria, or in the growing towns in the interior valleys. Out beyond the cities, a different world existed. Imaginative, determined, often raucous and sometimes raunchy, women in the wilds did what they wanted to do.
They ran traplines, hotels and bawdy houses, prospected for gold, lived in the wilderness, and married as many times as they wanted or not at all.
In this new edition, complete with a new foreword, Rosemary Neering tells the stories of the strength, independence and sheer determination of women such as Lillian Alling, who tried to walk home to Russia; and Evelyn Penrose, who divined for water, oil and criminal tendencies. Madam, prospector, writer, each of these amazing individuals lived a life that challenged the rules most women lived by.
Rosemary Neering is definitely a traveller, sometimes an adventurer, and remains in awe of the rebels who challenged the conventions that dictated how women should behave in an earlier time. A writer for all of her adult life, she is happiest when exploring, whether on back roads in the wilds of the west or in the stacks and filing cabinets of libraries and archives. She is the author of a number of books about the Canadian west, including Down the Road: Journeys through Small—Town British Columbia and A Traveller's Guide to Historic British Columbia, and co—author of Over Canada: An Aerial Adventure. She is a frequent contributor to and contributing editor for Beautiful British Columbia magazine. She lives in Victoria, where she gardens, plays tennis, and spends many hours thinking about her next trip in Canada, South America or Europe.
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Now in its 3rd printing, this is a BC regional classic that has been OP. Over 7,000 copies sold lifetime.
Perfect for tourism areas in Western Canada, who have been selling this book steadily for years. Key wholesalers know this title, and accounts will welcome it.
A book about strong women who refused to conform to societies standards. A strong message of empowerment!
New foreword.
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