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 the Boundary country in British Columbia in the romantic days of the early pioneers; and once she took an 850-mile drive up the Cariboo trail to the gold-fields. She was always an ardent canoeist, ran many strange rivers, crossed many a lonely lake, and camped in many an unfrequented place. These venturous trips she took more from her inherent love of nature and of adventure than from any necessity of her profession.

She has never been a woman who cared for clubs or any such organization; and has never belonged to but two, the American Canoe Association and the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club.

No writer in Canada can lay greater claim to being a Canadian than this native-born woman, who, although she has chosen to make her home in the beautiful city of Vancouver, still owns Indian Reserve land in Ontario, and is still a ward of the Canadian Government.