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Gumboot girls : adventure, love & survival on British Columbia's North Coast : a collection of memoirs / compiled by Jane Wilde & edited by Lou Allison.
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- ISBN: 9781927575659
- ISBN: 1927575656
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
- Publisher: Halfmoon Bay : Caitlin Press, 2014.
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- Includes index of authors.
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- Print version record.
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Gumboot Girls tells the stories of thirty-four women who left their comfortable city-dwelling surroundings and flocked to the north coast of BC in the 1970s.
- Association of Canadian Publishers
Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America. Many settled on the north coast of British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii or around Prince Rupert. Gumboot Girls tells the stories of thirty-four women, through their own eyes, as they moved from their comfortable city-dwelling surroundings to the rugged north coast. Part back-to-the-land, part adventure, heartbreak and love, this collection of stories edited by Lou Allison and compiled by Jane Wilde was inspired by the book Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller. Wilde, the creator of the collection, encouraged, prodded and cajoled her friends (and some of their friends) to tell the story of a generation of young women who flocked to the north coast of BC in the 1970s.