The Spruces

During the 1930s, some of the more adventurous city folk, seduced by the Canadian lure of free land, headed northwest to the Peace river country. One couple - numbered among the most innocent of all the settlers - tried to make a home at The Spruces.

Rex Holmes Rex Holmes and his wife live in Osoyoos British Columbia. He is retired but has homesteaded, worked in the Army Signal Corps and then with BC Telephone. He says, "If I had it all to do over again, I would go with joy back to the homestead and stay there forever." He is author of one other book, 'The Last Summer', now out of print.