ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and Chris Czajkowski speaking on Ginty's Ghost

Date: 7:30pm, Nov 14, 2012

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Speaker: Chris Czajkowski
Topic: Ginty's Ghost 

Chris will be introducing her 10th book: Ginty's Ghost.  Ginty Paul was an eccentric spinster who used to live on the derelict homestead Chris now inhabits.  The book is partly about her efforts to build a home - through fire and flood - and partly about Ginty herself; her story is told through letters she wrote and comments from people who knew her. The talk will include photographs of the local alpine plants. 

Chris Czajkowski grew up in England, travelled the world with a backpack for a decade, and arrived in Canada in 1979.  Three years later she was building her first off-road cabin in the wilderness, about 150 km inland from Bella Coola.  In 1988 she moved to a higher location on a fly-in lake where she built three more cabins and created the Nuk Tessli Alpine Experience, an ecotourism business catering to hikers and naturalists.  She has written ten books about her nearly thirty years of wilderness living.

At first she lived at Nuk Tessli full time, but in 2006, she bought a derelict homestead not too far from the mountain resort but with rough road access.   Ginty Creek is still quite remote, being three and a half hours' drive from the nearest bank, traffic light, supermarket and cell phone tower. It is ideally located to pursue Czajkowski's love of wilderness and the natural world.  She has several more books in the works.  For more information on her books and artwork, and an update of her adventures, visit her blog: www.wildernessdweller.ca