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Everett Monroe, the Legend and the Life

By Sheilagh Foster

Everett Monroe, the Legend and the Life

By Sheilagh Foster

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Kakwa Provincial Wilderness Park, Spirit Lake, Dot Falls, Iron Mountain and Purgatory Valley were all named by Everett Alton Monroe or were part of his legacy. Monroe was born in 1917 on his parents' Mountainview homestead near McBride, British Columbia, where the Fraser River meanders between the Cariboo and Rocky Mountains. Monroe carved a home in the shadow of the famously inhospitable Canadian Rockies. His outdoor skills, honed by years of thriving in the wilderness, were taxed when his courageous and steadfast beliefs made him a celebrated, yet reviled World War II resistor. Everett escaped his military captors on a train full of armed guards to find his way back home to his wife and newborn child. He learned from infancy to cherish his beautiful wilderness surroundings and his eight children inherited his love of the outdoors. Everett Monroe; The Legend and the Life weaves seemingly insurmountable hardship, pioneer survival and the thrills of wilderness adventure into a colourful and action-packed account of his life. It also introduces us anew to the beauties of this rugged land.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
328
Release Date:
2009-06-01
Publication Date:
2009-06-01
Publisher:
Strategic Book Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1606930931
ISBN13:
9781606930939
Weight:
619 g
Height:
178 cm
Width:
254 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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