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Our Sable Island Home
Our Sable Island Home
Our Sable Island Home
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By author: Sharon O'Hara With: Mary O'Hara
Paperback / softback * 9.00 x 6.00 inches
9781897426593
PC0224
Publisher: Pottersfield Press
Paperback / softback CAD $19.95 Qty:
Description
Our Sable Island Home is a personal story that does not shy away from the perils of life in an isolated locale, interwoven with maritime history that centres around the iconic island. The story will take you on a journey more than sixty years back into the past, to a time when Sable Island was referred to as “the Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
Our Sable Island Home
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By author: Sharon O'Hara With: Mary O'Hara
Paperback / softback * 9.00 x 6.00 inches
9781897426593
PC0224
Publisher: Pottersfield Press
Paperback / softback CAD $19.95 Qty:
Description
Our Sable Island Home is a personal story that does not shy away from the perils of life in an isolated locale, interwoven with maritime history that centres around the iconic island. The story will take you on a journey more than sixty years back into the past, to a time when Sable Island was referred to as “the Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
174 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 2014
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June 27, 2022
Author Sharon O'Hara tells the story about her family's two year life on Sable Island in 1951. Her father was a radio operator and was assigned to Sable Island. She tells stories of childhood fun and adventure while living on the island as a young girl around the age of 7.
Her stories included stealing eggs from their nests, rescuing a seal pup, and playing on the ponds and quicksand. For a few months there was another family with children her age and they all played together. However, for most of the 2 years she played with her sister who was only a year older. There was no school on the island and her father home schooled her and her sister in the mornings.
Life was not all rosy on Sable Island. While writing the book, she discovered that her sister had been sexually molested by one if the island workers. Also there was no clinic or doctor on the island. If medical help was needed, they would radio the mainland to speak to a doctor or wait for a supply ship to transport them to the mainland - Nova Scotia.
Overall, a good book about childhood in a remote Canadian island.
Her stories included stealing eggs from their nests, rescuing a seal pup, and playing on the ponds and quicksand. For a few months there was another family with children her age and they all played together. However, for most of the 2 years she played with her sister who was only a year older. There was no school on the island and her father home schooled her and her sister in the mornings.
Life was not all rosy on Sable Island. While writing the book, she discovered that her sister had been sexually molested by one if the island workers. Also there was no clinic or doctor on the island. If medical help was needed, they would radio the mainland to speak to a doctor or wait for a supply ship to transport them to the mainland - Nova Scotia.
Overall, a good book about childhood in a remote Canadian island.
March 30, 2017
A wonderful story about growing up on Sable Island.
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