Author: Eleanor Witton Hancock. Published by Partners in Publishing, Kamloops, BC., 2006. 1st Edition, 4th Printing. Printed in China. Brand New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. BONUS: An original matching Book Marker is included with this book, along with the original receipt and business card as purchased from Awatin Aboriginal Art in Campbell River, BC.
SALT CHUCK STORIES FROM VANCOUVER ISLAND'S WEST COAST, is filled with short stories about the unique individuals who pioneered the west coast of Vancouver Island, off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
You'll read all about the Perry Brothers of Nootka Sound, Eva Benjamin of Zeballos, carpenter Alder Bloom, Rebecca McPhee and the Red Cross Hospital at Kyuquot and Swiss trapper and prospector Andy Morod of Nootka Sound, counterfeiters near Yuquot in 1911, and the Gibson Brothers who logged airplane spruce at Zeballos back in the days.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, Eleanor Witton Hancock grew up in Zeballos from age three onwards. Her family mainly ran the Zeballos general store after her grandfather Seth Witton purchased it in 1939. Years later, she married a mining engineer, settled in Kamloops and became interested in researching Canada's last significant gold boom that occurred in Zeballos in 1938.
