Excerpts from Cougar Annie's Garden

Please click to any of the excerpts from the book provided below.

...setting the scene ...from Chapter One

No one lives in the garden now. A scattering of old buildings, damp and crooked, appear along the narrow boardwalks and winding pathways – an old cabin or two, small collapsing sheds with salmonberry bushes bursting through the broken shingles... Read more

...killing cougars ...from Chapter Nine

Killing cougars was always, for Cougar Annie, a straightforward necessity to protect her livestock, but she was no doubt influenced by a strong financial incentive as well. A bounty had been offered on cougars by the provincial government... Read more

...Boat Basin Post Office ...from Chapter Seven

When their little general store was up and running and when Ada Annie Rae-Arthur's mail order plant and bulb business began to grow, the lack of a post office became a problem. While the children were still at home and while they would do as their mother bid... Read more