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category: History
published: Jul 2011
ISBN:9781926971858
publisher: TouchWood Editions

Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits

A History of the Sunshine Coast

by Betty Keller & Rosella Leslie

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For well over a century, the bright seas of the Sunshine Coast have been attracting visitors to the waterfront resorts, fishing lodges and beaches that rest between Howe Sound and the spectacular Princess Louisa Inlet. These coastal hotspots and communities were settled by a few courageous and daring pioneers whose names are still familiar today: Gibsons, Roberts, Whitaker, Donley, Silvey, Griffiths.

Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits tells the stories of the homesteaders, loggers, prospectors and fishermen who carved out a living on the treacherous mountainside that rises straight out of the inlets. These men and women came with nothing in their pockets and founded logging empires, shingle mills and sawmills, launched fish canneries, a glue factory and even a well-known jam factory, and scaled the mountainsides to start copper and gold mines. They travelled and traded by boat, long before coastal roads were built in the 1950s, and their pioneering spirits still ride the bright seas of the Sunshine Coast today.

About the Authors

Betty Keller, author, playwright, and editor, lives on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in BC. She is an instrumental figure in the organization of the Festival of the Written Arts in Sechelt, BC.


Betty Keller, author, playwright, and editor, lives on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in BC. She is an instrumental figure in the organization of the Festival of the Written Arts in Sechelt, BC.

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