Chilcotin Holiday

Gerry Meek was a librarian in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

This study consists of a collection of newspaper columns written by the author between 1965 and 1979. Each of the individual stories that make up the work is relatively short, no more than a few pages, and all focus on people, places, and events in the Chilcotin country of British Columbia.

Individually they present a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some very real and remarkable people. Collectively, they provide a moving impression of a special time and place and in the process cover a vast territory and a broad range of emotion and experience.

This very fine book easily captures its readers and leads them into a unique and unchanging world, a last frontier “still under the proprietorship of God” where “the sunsets were free.”

The author is a former newspaper columnist for the Vancouver Sun. The present volume is a revised and greatly expanded edition of a work published in 1970.