$10 · Salt Spring Island

Salt Spring Island by Bea Hamilton Hardcover, 1969, 180 pages, dust jacket has 3.00 marked on front and shows significant wear. There is an island in British Columbia's sheltered Gulf of Georgia that is uniquely blessed of Nature and the home of generations of people of widely varied origins. There they have lived with more than the usual degree of satisfactions. Some were English and American, some American negroes coming before the slaves were emancipated, some were sailors who jumped ship, not a few were Kanakas from Hawaii. Canadians and Americans of modern times are discovering the joys of island life - but the descendants of the first settlers remain the solid core of today's population. There are salt springs that give the island its unusual name - but chief amongst the natural assets of the place is its tradition of self-sufficiency and its continuing charm of country living and neighborliness. Bea Hamilton, who was born there of a pioneering family and has never been long away from Salt Spring, is the island's journalist, author and historian. Others today may see modern Salt Spring through different eyes. This is her island, the people her people and she introduces them with lively interest and much respect for what they are - Salt Spring Islanders. See pictures Pickup in Langford Cross posted