Author: CENTENNIAL BOOK COMMITTEE/FARM WOMEN'S UNION OF ALBERTA, LOCAL 204
Title: Pioneers Who Blazed the Trail: Local History of High Prairie, Alberta
Description: High Prairie, Alberta: Centennial Book Committee/Farm Women's Union of Alberta, Local 204, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. 320 pages. Index to family stories. Black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Includes many family and personal histories, and more. "There are few living now who can recall travelling the winter freight trails over frozen rivers and lakes or crossing the hundred mile long Great Barrier of muskegs, swamps, bridgeless rivers and creeks between Athabasca Landing and Sawridge, on Lesser Slave Lake, during the summer season to look for locations on which to build homes. In this raw, wild land, winters were too long and too cold; summers with hordes of mosquitoes and numerous other blood sucking insects were too short, but that was compensated for with almost endless daylight hours and sunshine that produced endless daylight hours and sunshine that produced a rapid growth of vegetation, both wild and cultivated." - Introduction. Average wear. Bit of writing atop first blank leaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful local history and indispensable genealogical reference. WETHERELL 6-48, KROTKI [2E] 480, STRATHERN 3065.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Pioneers Who Blazed the Trail: Local History, High Prairie, Alberta Athabasca Landing, Sawridge, Lesser Slave Lake, Pioneers, settlers, families, Genealogy, Grouard, Biographies, High Prairie Farm Women's Uniont of Alberta, F.W.U.A, Local 204. Good .

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