Gertrude Baskerville - The Lady of Algonquin Park

by Gaye Clemson

Overview

In the spring of 1941, Gertrude Baskerville set out from the Kitchener area with her ailing husband and 16-year old son to join her brother in establishing a new life on the shores of South Tea Lake in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Within a year her husband had died from injuries received during WWI, her son had been shipped overseas to fight in WWII and her brother had decided that better opportunity lay for him and his family to move to British Columbia. Gertie, as she was called, was totally alone. But Algonquin Park had captured her soul, so rather than return to Kitchener, she decided to stay and see if she could carve our a life for herself in the Algonquin wilderness. This is her story.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014173315
Publisher:	Globalinkage Publications
Publication date:	03/29/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	83
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Since 1994, Gaye I. Clemson, a summer resident of Algonquin Park has been collecting stories and manuscripts from fellow Algonquin Park residents in an ongoing effort to capture the voices of over 100 years of leasehold experience. This story of Gertrude was her first publisehd work and since then she has gone on to write six others, each addressing a different aspect of Algonquin Park human history. In summer she can be found on Canoe Lake in Algonquin and in winter she resides in Capitola, California. For more information check out her website www.algonquinparkheritage.com