No roads to Princess Louisa Inlet. So
by boat, the long deep reaches of Jervis Inlet and its history of ice, of the
Sechelt people, of floods, visits by Captains Vancouver and Richards, the
devastation of the People by new diseases, followed by raging fires, logging
and its remote, fleeting railroads. We
realized the Sechelt as agriculturists who used cool fires to keep the land
clear. After the people were too many
dead to maintain the land, the forest took over. Later Princess Louisa sold;
people who love the Inlet have, since then, worked to retrieve and protect it