Product Description In the spring of 1941, Gertrude Baskerville set out from the Kitchener area with her ailing husband and 16-year old son to join her brother in establishing a new life on the shores of South Tea Lake in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Within a year her husband had died from injuries received during WWI, her son had been shipped overseas to fight in WWII and her brother had decided that better opportunity lay for him and his family to move to British Columbia. Gertie, as she was called, was totally alone. But Algonquin Park had captured her soul, so rather than return to Kitchener, she decided to stay and see if she could carve our a life for herself in the Algonquin wilderness. This is her story. About the Author Born in Toronto, Ontario, Gaye I. Clemson, first came to Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park, Ontario as a 9-month old and has spent part of virtually every summer there since the early 1950's. Her first Canoe Lake summer was spent sitting in a bushel basket under a giant pine tree watching her parents build their family summer cabin on a newly leased ridge high above the lake. Every nail, shingle, and piece of recycled lumber had been driven up from Toronto, carried across the lake in a small boat and then hauled up a hill following a narrow path cut through the forest. Inspired in 1996, the author became curious about the lives of fellow leaseholders who had inhabited the lake since 1905. For years she has been collecting stories and manuscripts from fellow Algonquin Park residents in an ongoing effort to capture the voices of over 100 years of leasehold experience. In summer she can be found on Canoe Lake in Algonquin and in winter she resides in Capitola, California.