Haley Healy’s second book following the success of her first “On their own terms” is now available

Once again she features some of the amazing women that help to create the Vancouver Island that we now enjoy and cherish.

Thank you Haley for portraying these women such a graphic way for us to enjoy.

Trish Summerhayes.
Publisher Island Woman Magazine.

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Flourishing and Free: More Stories of Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island is an inspiring and eye-opening collection of true stories about sixteen women who blazed their own trails in life and contributed in a fundamental way to the history of Vancouver Island and the surrounding islands.

In this fascinating follow-up to On Their Own Terms, author Haley Healey chronicles the lives of a whole new crop of resilient, hard-working, rule-breaking, diverse women who lived on and around Vancouver Island. Flourishing and Free introduces readers to Sylvia Stark, who was born into slavery in Missouri and went on to become a homesteader on Salt Spring Island; Mary Ann Croft, the first female lighthouse keeper in all of Canada; Victoria Chung, the first Asian-Canadian person to earn a medical degree, who provided urgent care during the Second World War; Barbara Touchie (Sičquuʔuƛ), who dedicated forty years of her life to revitalizing and sharing the Nuu-chah-nulth language and Minnie Paterson, who completed an epic night hike through a west coast storm to rescue sailors shipwrecked on a tempestuous shoreline known as the “Graveyard of the Pacific.”

Uplifting, empowering, and entertaining, this concise collection of stories will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the unsung heroines of the West Coast.

Get your copy of Flourishing and Free: More Stories of Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island at your local bookstore, including Windowseat Books in Nanaimo, Volume One Books in Duncan and Fireside Books in Parksville. It can also be purchased online at https://www.amazon.ca/Flourishing-Free-Stories-Trailblazing-Vancouver/dp/1772033537/  

Haley’s first book, On Their Own Terms: True Stories of Vancouver Island is also available at local bookstores and online at https://www.amazon.ca/Their-Own-Terms-Trailblazing-Vancouver/dp/1772033251

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