M. Wylie Blanchet

Muriel Wylie Blanchet moved to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with her husband and children in 1922. Widowed in 1927, Blanchet defied expectations by remaining on Vancouver Island, home-schooling their five children. Over the next fifteen summers, children in tow, she explored the British Columbia coast on their twenty-five-foot boat, the Caprice, often following the logbooks and voyages of Captain Vancouver, one of the first Europeans to explore the BC coast. She wrote an extraordinary series of magazine essays about their adventures, and in 1961 published a compilation titled The Curve of Time, an enduring bestseller and beloved Canadian classic. Blanchet died at her typewriter in 1961.