Judith Williams 
Raincoast Chronicles 24 [EPUB ebook] 
Cougar Companions: Bute Inlet Country and the Legendary Schnarrs

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Of the settlers, prospectors, trappers, mountaineers and loggers who came to British Columbia’s remote Bute Inlet between the 1890s and the 1940s, few remained long. August Schnarr, however, trapped far up the Homathko and Southgate Rivers and logged the inlet shores from 1910 until the 1960s. An adventurous photographer, August strapped his Kodak camera to his suspenders and captured his mountain climbing, upriver treks and family homestead. His photo collection is a diary of fifty years of an upcoast life.

In this twenty-fourth issue of Raincoast Chronicles, Judith Williams traces the Schnarrs’ family story through August’s photographs. Included are classic portraits of the pioneering Bute residents posed on wooden boats and floathouses and with giant fish catches and hunting trophies as well as rare 1930s pictures documenting August’s daughters with their pet cougars. “They were nice pets, we could pet them and they’d purr just like a cat, and they kept pawing you, don’t quit, don’t quit, ” said August’s daughter Pansy in an interview with Maud Emery. “They didn’t like anybody but us three; they didn’t like my dad at all. They were just like cats to us, we didn’t think of them as anything special, nothing but a bunch of work.”

Richly illustrated, impeccably researched and featuring diaries, interviews and oral history,  Raincoast Chronicles 24 illuminates the experience of homesteading on the remote BC coast.

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Judith Williams is an assistant professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and is the author of Clam Gardens (New Star Books, 2006) and Dynamite Stories (New Star Books, 2003). She lives on Cortes Island, BC.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9781550178630 ● Dimensione 25.7 MB ● Casa editrice Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. ● Città BC ● Pubblicato 2019 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 6975569 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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