How would your life be different if you couldn’t drive a car? If once a week, a steamship arrived at the dock with supplies to keep you going for the next week? If your husband and the father of your children came home on “The Daddy Boat” once a week?
Cynthia Jones Meets The Union Steamship at 1 AM tells of a much simpler time on the Sunshine Coast – when anyone could go out in a sabot and grab a fish with her bare hands, when hospitals were miles from each other, when most lived in float houses by the light of a kerosene lamp.
This podcast features stories from Ethel McNutt and Cynthia Culbard Jones and is part of the historical theatrical series called THE LIFE WE LIVED. I interviewed these women who were born at the turn of the century and into the 30s and recorded their stories during the Nineties. These we called Sunshine Coast old timers and they lived robust lives right here on The Sunshine Coast before there were any roads.
The individual podcasts in THE LIFE WE LIVED series can be found here under the various titles: Gladys and The Pig Man, Those Darn Chickens! Luella, Who Survived Her Times, The Women of Essondale, The Hospital for Injured Snakes, Your Predecessor Had a Nervous Breakdown!.Everything is In Motion and Read Island Santa Claus.
Enjoy! And feel free to share the history of this beautiful place that is changing so quickly! -March, 2022 (Two days after COVID mask mandate was lifted in Province of British Columbia – we are all part of history!)
