'Mac' Annable was a big man with a hearty laugh and a great appetite for life.
A bronco busting, land speculating, rancher politician, 'Mac' Annable traded livestock by the boxcar and land by the section. He crossed Canada's western frontier by train car, buckboard and shank's mare for forty colourful years.
He witnessed firsthand the Canadian Pacific Railways' ambitious western thrust. He provided horses to the Northwest Mounted Police to quell the Northwest Rebellion. He served as an elected member of the Assiniboia Assembly when Saskatchewan and Alberta joined Confederation as new provinces in 1905. Ranching the Kootenay District in the Rocky Mountains in 1899, he operated a 5,000 acre cattle ranch and lumber company between Trail and Rossland, B.C. His final years were spent in Vancouver and in a simple cabin on a coastal Gulf Island. It was there, on Valdes Island, that this story unfolded in a dialogue with his grandson. The upcoming prequel in The Pioneer Trail Series traces the adventurous life of John Annble (1751-1814), Mac's forefather who fought with the King's Royal Regiment under Sir John Johnson during Canada's War of Independence.

ISBN 0-9738895-0-0 •5.5"; x 8.5"; •118 pages •$19.50 CDN • paper • Biography

[Ancan Publishing, PO Box 91608, West Vancouver, BC V7V 3P3]