Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896–2017
Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896–2017 by Cole Harris
English | August 1st, 2018 | ISBN: 1550178237 | 288 Pages | EPUB | 11.73 MB
English | August 1st, 2018 | ISBN: 1550178237 | 288 Pages | EPUB | 11.73 MB
In 1888, a prosperous industrial family in Calne, Wiltshire, sent one of its younger sons, a lad judged to have no head for business, to Guelph Agricultural College in Ontario to learn to be a farmer.
Joseph Colebrook Harris, the author’s grandfather, didn’t take to Ontario and after visiting a friend on Salt Spring Island, fell in love with BC. Eventually fetching up on the shores of the Slocan Lake, Joe bought 270 acres of hilly land in the Slocan Valley, less than thirty acres of which was really fit for farming, and began clearing the forest to build a ranch. Here is the story of Harris’s life and the next 120 years of the ranch’s, including the discovery of a silver–lead mine on the property, a period as a Japanese internment camp, brushes with American counterculture and the back-to-the-land movement, family conflicts, and an uncertain future.
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