On to the Sunset: The Lifetime Adventures of a Spirited Pioneer

Lisa M. Rohlmann is a former business owner in Shelburne, Ontario.

On to the Sunset is a collection of stories about the early days of
rural frontier life, as told by the author’s grandfather, Albert
McCarty, born in 1870. Filled with suspense and humor, his stories are
about the everyday adventures of making a living in that bygone era:
from a one-room schoolhouse with 80 pupils and one lone teacher, to a
nine-year-old lost in the woods for two weeks, to McCarty’s mother
passing out from exhaustion beside her stony washboard by the river, to
encounters with hailstorms and brushfires, to the challenge of taming a
wild stallion.

Temptations of a more prosperous life further west kept McCarty on the
move every few years. From Ontario to Manitoba to Southern Alberta to
Vancouver, he kept increasing his holdings until he had his own grain
storage business on the West Coast. But then he lost it all when his
manager gambled away his fortune. With little more than an rickety truck
to their name, he and his son started over in the sawdust business.

On the Sunset is at once a testament to the indomitability of the human
spirit and a window into a fascinating period in Canadian history.