Prepared by Diane Sterne for Princeton, B.C.'s 150th birthday, In Her Words (Princeton Museum and Archives $20), collects the pioneer writing of Susan Louisa Allison (née Moir), the first white woman to settle in the Similkameen. Sometimes writing under the pen name of Stratton Moir, she recounts First Nations legends told to her in the 1800s when she ventured into the British Columbia interior with her new husband, John Fall Allison. She died in Vancouver in 1937 at 92. The Daily Province published a series of her articles that were later collected in a volume by historian Margaret Ormsby for A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia (UBC Press). 978-0-9866769-0-1

In Her Words is available at the Princeton Chamber of Commerce, Princeton Museum (Box 281, Princeton, B.C., Canada V0X 1W0. (250) 295-7588. Email inquiries to: editor@mozey-on-inn.com