Salt Chuck Stories from Vancouver Island's West Coast
written by
Eleanor Hancock
ISBN 0-9739980-3-2

Life was rough. Rain lashed the impenetrable forests and hostile seas. The wind howled through the inlets. In the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, brave, resourceful men and women pioneered Vancouver Island’s west coast. They opened up the coast. Eleanor Hancock grew up at Zeballos. She writes about a Swiss prospector/ trapper and his harrowing experiences, boat builders and counterfeiters, a woman of the 1938 Zeballos gold rush, the nurse who opened the Red Cross outpost hospital at Kyuquot, Nuu-chah- nulth at Friendly Cove, and a Latvian who photographed the development of Nootka Sound. An exciting collection based on first hand interviews. New material from the rain coast.

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