From the Old World they came to Cowichan, the rich and poor, the scions of aristocracy and labourers, the erudite and the dropout, the regimental and the individualist, the poet, the ploughman and the artist...

Chapter highlights include:

• ‘Go to Cowichan. Stop.’

• A Hallowe’en kind of Christmas

• Marriner diaries are portals to the past

• ‘Fighting’ Joe Martin was no match for Cowichan’s Charles Dickie

• Mad dogs and Englishmen in the noonday sun

• Dying miner’s friends were too late to save him

Bonus Chapter:
‘The Murder of Joe Dougan’. The full, previously unpublished story of the shooting of this Cobble Hill pioneer by his ‘loving’ cousin and lover Mary Ann Routledge.

160 pages.
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