Born in 1918 “into the hands of Granny Rouse” Louella Duncan was a child of the first landowners in Bargain Harbour. Their family existed in conditions that have vanished with modern life. As one child in a family of eleven, she lived on a float house in a logging camp and travelled everywhere by boat, since the roads had not been built yet.
Life could be brutal and spectacular. Louella describes the big earthquake at Queen Charlotte in 1946, losing a brother off the back of a boat in a gale; and a family tragedy that still happens in close-knit communities in rural British Columbia.
Louella is the voice of a woman who survived her times.
This particular story was presented live asThe Life We Lived, with Louella in the audience at The Rockwood in Sechelt. She was one of several women whose stories were told that day, true stories from women who lived in the early part of the 20th century.
This episode Louella, Who Survived Her Times, is part of the ongoing series SOME KINDA WOMAN, Stories of Us, a podcast about women at pivotal moments of their lives. One voice at a time.
