Books By Susan Hulland:

Remember When... is a comprehensive history of Crawford Bay, written on the occasion of its centennial in 2004.

This isolated settlement survived the hardships of two World Wars, the Great Depression and a "boom - bust" natural resource based economy.

Once nicknamed 'Dogpatch', Crawford Bay now hosts a championship golf course, one of West Kootenay's only producting mines and a thriving arts community.

Enjoy the diverse photographic images and captivating stories of the resourceful individuals who developed 'the Bay'.

Meet the prospectors and the silver miners, farmers and fruit ranchers, trappers and loggers, labourers and landed gentry who settled on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake.

Impressions of the Past includes stories and experiences told by the resourceful men and women who came here to work, build homes, raise families and form communities.

This book uses material from journals, letters and family histories. Richly illustrated with more than 375 photographs, maps and graphics, this community history captures the imagination.

The S.S. City of Ainsworth was launched on Kootenay Lake in the spring of 1892. She carried the dreams of a small community struggling to survive in a regional economy governed by transportation, and mineral prices.

In 1898, after just six years of service plagued with difficulty and scandal, the little sternwheeler sank during an early winter gale with an unprecedented loss of nine lives.

Almost a century later, interest in the less than perfect sternwheeler was rekindled and the painstaking search for her wreck began. Efforts to locate her took place over two decades. In the end, it required twentieth century technology, developed for Canada's space program, to get Kootenay Lake to give up her nineteenth century sunken treasure.

In a part of the Kootenays known for its splendid heritage buildings, Pilot Bay Lighthouse stands alone.

The lighthouse, nearly a century old, is from another era. A time before railways and roads - a time when the unpredictable waters of Kootenay Lake were the only highway.

The history of Pilot Bay Lighthouse is as unique as its location and just as full of surprises!