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Tofino's Traits and Trends

by Walter Guppy

124 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); images throughout; catalogue #05-2609; ISBN 1-4120-7713-3; US$13.78, C$15.85, EUR11.32, £7.93

A compilation of anecdotes about Tofino and Tofinoites.

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This is Walter Guppy's seventh book. His first, Westcoast Ventures, and to some extent the second, Wilderness Wandering on Vancouver Island, were about prospecting for gold on Vancouver Island with accounts of cross country treks not related to mining activity included in the latter. Subsequent literary efforts, such as Clayoquot Soundings and Eighty Years in Tofino, delved into various aspects of the life in the Clayoquot Sound area from a first person perspective. Tofino's Traits and Trends continues this same general theme from a third-person perspective with emphasis on changes that have taken place in the community over the years that the Author lived in Tofino from the 1920's to the end of the century.

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About the Author

Walter Guppy grew up in Tofino where his father settled after taking early retirement from the Civil Service in India. The Guppy family, four boys and a girl, arrived in this roadless community when Walter was three years old. There was little in the way of organized activities or entertainment in Tofino in those days. Kids devised their own diversions, some of which are described in this book. As Walter grew older he tagged along with his older brother and his chum exploring the shoreline of the inlet, the beaches and the deserted homesteads. Later old minesites, some far back in the hills, came within his sphere of investigation. When it came to earning a living, commercial fishing, at which Walter was not very successful, was the mainstay of the area, so he took up prospecting when a mining boom developed on the West Coast. In 1942 he was employed as a boat operator in connection with the construction of Tofino Airport, then after a spell in the armed services, took up electrical contracting for a living, prospecting as a way of life, and writing as a sideline

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