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In Those Days: tales of a Pouce Coupe youth

by Barbara Dalby

99 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-0911; ISBN 1-4251-2674-X; US$17.35, C$19.95, EUR13.53, £8.97

This lively village history describes the sometimes humorous effects of the Depression conditions on the local youth; and later outlines the impact of the building of the Alaska Highway.

About the Book

This book, "In Those Days, tales of a Pouce Coupe youth" presents vignettes of a specific place and time: the small northern BC village of Pouce Coupe in two decades: the thirties and forties. Told from the point of view of a child and later a teenager, the stories relate local events that carry on during the friendly invasion of the American army. Interspersed with these accounts are authentic business letters and personal correspondence through which we learn historic details of the flood year of 1935, the local festival of 1940 and the disastrous explosion in Dawson Creek in 1943.

Told conversationally, this brief collection of lively stories provides an insight into the daily life of Peace River District people through the eras of the Depression, World War II, and the building of the Alaska Highway.

About the Author

Barbara Dalby has always enjoyed writing comic sketches, newspaper articles or book reports, but this is her first published book. Born in a northern BC village, the setting of this story, she left at age sixteen for Vancouver and UBC. Years later she returned to the South Peace to work. There she met her husband Walter, and with their family they regularly enjoyed the outdoors: camping, fishing, river boating. Their four children and eight grand children are scattered about BC, Alberta and Utah. Walt and Barbara now live in the south Cariboo.