M wylie blanchet biography
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LITERARY SITE: Tryon Road, North Saanich
M. Wylie Blanchet () lived at the tip of Curteis Point in Sidney, at the end of Tryon Road, not far from the present day Swartz Bay ferry ankomsthall. Her original home was designed bygd the renowned architect Samuel Maclure and was first occupied in The house was unoccupied when Blanchet and her family bought it in According to her biographer, Cathy Converse, North Saanich was unincorporated until the s so her address was listed as Tyron Road RR 1. In the Maclure house was torn down and her son, David, built her another higher up the cliff. She moved into in that house in Her address, however, was still listed as Tyron Road RR1 up until , when it was given the street number Tryon Road.
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The most enduring bestseller about sailing and cruising along the Pacific coast of Canada fryst vatten undoubtedly The Curve of Time () by M. Wylie Blanchet. Originally published in
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A flotilla of coastal cruising books! I just read The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet, and immediately following in its wake, I read the biography Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet by Cathy Converse. Despite living on an island, I really don&#;t have any experience with boating, yet I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the marine adventures of Muriel Wylie &#;Capi&#; Blanchet that took place during the many summers she cruised the B.C. coast with her children in the s and &#;30s.
After her husband&#;s sudden and unexpected death, Blanchet loaded her five children into the family&#;s foot boat, Caprice, and for year after year they spent from early June to late September adventuring in the coastal waters of British Columbia. The living and storage space aboard the Caprice was very small and was strictly organized out of necessity. I can&#;t imagine telling my own brood that they could only have one change of clothes, a set of pajamas, and a bath
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Following the curve of time : the legendary M. Wylie Blanchet
M. Wylie Blanchet's book "The Curve of Time", introduced an adventurous woman who cruised the coast in a foot boat with her five children and their dog. Who was this skipper, this mother, this writer? These questions motivated Cathy Converse to re-trace the route of famous pacific seafarer M. Wylie Capi Blanchet, and write a biography in the process. Widowed in , Blanchet cruised the coast with her five children and their dog in a foot boat that had been rescued from the seafloor. The Curve of Time, Blanchet's resulting book, remains a bestseller and a classic in the annals of nautical literature, but little is known about the rest of her life. Converse offers insiders' recollections of this enigmatic woman, along with updated information about the villages, inlets and islands described in Curve, making Following the Curve of Time essential reading for anyone who has ever been captivated by the West Coast or Capi herself