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John Goodman
This Week Editor

DOREEN Armitage’s Around the Sound (A
History of Howe Sound - Whistler) just pub-
lished by Harbour is by far the most authori-
tative work on the area to date. “One of my
dreams was to have something for children to
research in the library,” says the former
teacher. “I had to dig, really dig. A lot of the
information and photographs are pub-
lished for the first time.”

Armitage’s historical overview of sea to sky

country packs a lot of information into :t3 narra-
tive. The introductory chapters go over pre-19th

NEWS photo Terry Peters

DOREEN Armitage’s new book Around the Sound is
the resuit of three years of research.

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New history sheds light on sea to sky country

is totally unknown,” says Armitage. “I got the opportunity
to talk to Marie Kendall who was a young child when her

family first visited the island in the owenties.” Kendall sup-

plied rare unpublished photographs of lite on Anvil Island

during the early part of the century.

Other interview subjects were of similar help to
Armitage. “In some cases finding out who to talk to was
dependent on luck. Someone would give me a name and
they would give me another name. The whole thing was

century material with the core af the book focussing on
settlement of the region in the last 100 years.

The well-written, insightful text covers all the major
points of interest: the Britannia disasters; the Cates and
Mellon family businesses; the history of Point Atkinson
Lighthouse; the ferry and rail companies that mace devel-
opment of the arca possible. But the real value of the
work is in the description of everyday lite.

Much of the material is based on personal interviews
the author did during her three years of research. For

some areas there was very little information. “Anvil Island See Cariboo page 42

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