The cover, title page, and poems are decorated by delightful wood-cut prints, with a lithe little fairy flitting about the flowers. The volume itself is comprised of 28 short poems: an introduction, the 26 letters of the alphabet, and a farewell. Dorothea remained involved in North Okanagan community affairs for the rest of her very long life she died in 1981, at the age of 103. She had accepted a teaching position in Okanagan Centre, but when the couple married in December of 1913, she gave up her position (as was required of married women at the time) but stayed involved in education and other community services in the Kalamalka area. While in Oyama, she fell in love with her cousin’s neighbour, Robert Allison. She came to Canada in 1912 to visit her cousin, as part of a round-the-world tour that began with visits to her sisters in Burma and India. This captivating little book was written by a teacher in the North Okanagan Valley. A Dorothea Allison A Fairy Garland of BC Flowers (194-)
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